Mark Ther
Marka Thera považuji v tom, co dělá, za klasika a ojedinělou postavu českého video artu. K tomu je asi naším jediným sudetským umělcem. Nebo by alespoň rád byl. V mém výběru zastává roli hvězdy. O Markovi toho bylo řečeno mnoho a to, co o něm nevíme, bude dobré, když nikdy nebude zcela odhaleno a stane se součástí mýtu.
Klíčem k výběru jsou rozdílné přístupy autorů k médiu videa. Pro Petra Krátkého je video dočasným naplněním jeho konceptuálního přístupu, Mark Ther má blízko k filmovému jazyku a Macula pracuje s videem jako součástí strategií designu.
David Kořínek (kurátor srpnového vydání profilů)
- Is this an iris?00:01:52.239
- Would you like it if I wore these clothes all the time?00:02:11.954
- No?00:02:17.656
- I think people used to wear them before 1945.00:02:20.563
- Well...00:02:26.806
- As for the white socks...00:02:31.231
- They used to wear folk costumes,00:02:34.730
- like in Bavaria in Germany.00:02:39.168
- The people who lived here00:02:59.715
- 00:02:59.715
- had to leave their little houses00:03:05.563
- with only 25 kg of baggage.00:03:10.787
- They had to leave this country,00:03:14.572
- the former Czechoslovakia.00:03:18.072
- They had to abandon their sheep,00:03:21.515
- take the most important stuff and leave forever.00:03:25.015
- I'm glad you're here.00:04:05.286
- Imagine if this house were mine00:04:08.954
- and we would sit inside it00:04:12.454
- by the light of a kerosene lamp00:04:16.207
- because there was no electricity here before.00:04:19.734
- So we'd sit there and I'd read tales to you.00:04:23.801
- But there would have to be00:04:28.390
- 00:04:28.390
- little blond children.00:04:32.793
- And we'd read tales and have meals together...00:04:36.025
- ... and we'd take the train together00:04:47.411
- and stuff like that.00:04:51.272
- It would be a steam locomotive.00:04:54.216
- We could do without a PC, couldn't we?00:04:57.716
- Of course, we'd get a Mac.00:05:01.531
- We'd put it somewhere in the room.00:05:04.707
- Do you know who Hitler was?00:05:08.697
- Nevermind.00:05:12.697
- Can you hear me well? Hello?00:05:15.155
- When you say Sudeten Germans,00:05:19.184
- everyone thinks about nazism.00:05:23.404
- But people should realize that since 1918,00:05:27.280
- they were a minority and had little rights.00:05:30.780
- For instance,00:05:36.040
- Sudeten Germans couldn't become civil servants.00:05:38.040
- A car!00:05:42.454
- I haven't finished talking about Sudetenland.00:05:45.020
- I created a video recently.00:05:49.020
- The title is "Pflaumen" - Plums.00:05:52.739
- It has about 15 minutes.00:05:56.399
- It talks about the resettlement of the Sudeten Germans.00:05:59.399
- It's about a mother and her son.00:06:04.866
- She looks for him in the forest00:06:08.424
- because he doesn't want to leave his home.00:06:11.924
- I don't think it's my last work from this series.00:06:16.414
- The theme is strong00:06:21.592
- and it hasn't exhausted itself yet,00:06:24.092
- although some more famous directors have used it.00:06:28.483
- The video shows it the way a child saw it.00:06:34.684
- The boy is 11 years old and others tell him00:06:38.077
- that he and his mother have to leave.00:06:43.562
- But he doesn't understand it so he runs away00:06:48.063
- to ask his mother if it's really true.00:06:52.563
- He's only 11 and he doesn't understand00:06:56.870
- why he should leave his home.00:07:01.097
- I think we'd all be reluctant to leave.00:07:06.680
- I think the result is fine but... and so on.00:07:11.826
- The title of the film is "Was für Material".00:07:32.940
- Was für Material. I made it in 2007.00:07:39.943
- It's not so much about Sudetenland00:07:43.896
- but rather about love among adolescents00:07:50.043
- who participated in the Hitlerjugend.00:07:55.844
- In fact, there's a boy00:08:01.197
- who is not among the Hitlerjugend00:08:04.444
- and another one who is a member.00:08:07.944
- I put together several scenes00:08:11.438
- of a rather gay tone00:08:16.438
- showing their mutual love.00:08:23.329
- My purpose was not only to show Sudetenland,00:08:30.087
- but also to show one aspect of the Hitlerjugend00:08:36.011
- that later replicated in the Boy Scout movement00:08:41.967
- and other similar groups,00:08:46.727
- that is homosexual love.00:08:50.950
- It was quite frequent,00:08:54.578
- and although the leaders tried to fight it,00:08:58.199
- I don't think they managed to do it00:09:02.109
- by the end of the war.00:09:05.609
- I used this theme in several scenes.00:09:08.542
- There's a boy from the village00:09:12.808
- and another one from the Hitlerjugend.00:09:17.079
- The film depicts the time they spend together.00:09:21.541
- It's a common idea00:09:26.840
- that all those people were fanatics,00:09:29.840
- which isn't true.00:09:34.932
- In the video "Was für Material"00:09:37.979
- I used a phrase uttered by Hitler in 1933:00:09:41.979
- "Was für Material" - what material!00:09:46.093
- He wanted to emphasize what youth meant to him,00:09:50.498
- that he needed young people to be strong and fast.00:09:55.161
- - What was I saying? - About the leg...00:10:05.284
- Yeah, right!00:10:09.284
- About the fanatics.00:10:12.198
- Of course, it was whispered among the young00:10:15.731
- that Hitler might be a sort of crazy.00:10:20.317
- Many people thought so but couldn't say it.00:10:24.384
- That's why I belittled the Hitler salute00:10:30.219
- by letting the boys make fun of it.00:10:36.139
- They are relaxed because they are alone,00:10:40.805
- not knowing they're being watched.00:10:45.113