Respect existence or expect resistance!
The exhibition of Tomáš Rafa, the winner of Oskar Čepan award from 2011, called Respect existence or expects resistance! is the current selection from the project New nationalism. It deals with topical social issues such as nationalism, xenophobia, global policy or the manipulation of information by media. Tomáš Rafa doesn´t comment, he doesn’t present his opinions on the topics, he minimizes the visual devices and acts as an observer and mediator of the global happenings.
- "One two, one two, can I speak?"00:00:10.757
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- After the Oskar Čepan Award00:00:15.564
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- I went to the US for 6 weeks, January, February,00:00:18.497
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- and I managed to get in contact00:00:23.601
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- with the people from Occupy Wall Street movement00:00:26.736
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- who every day continued with00:00:30.650
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- what they had started in October 2011.00:00:33.181
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- Actually, every day, they organized something00:00:39.411
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- that was structurally and conceptionally connected to that movement.00:00:44.732
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- With their activism,00:00:51.654
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- they tried to get people's attention,00:00:58.208
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- explain the current situation:00:01:02.256
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- what this economic crisis is actually about;00:01:04.406
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- who is responsible00:01:07.449
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- I was present there with my camera,00:01:10.204
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- I shot what was happening around,00:01:13.169
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- I processed it right there00:01:16.975
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- and the most interesting parts00:01:18.827
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- I elaborated into a 40-minute presentation.00:01:21.378
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- This presentation will also be exhibited here in SNG00:01:29.531
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- as the first part of the exhibition.00:01:35.738
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- The second part of the exhibition00:01:46.793
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- is the selection of videos from 2012,00:01:49.714
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- or more precisely of the last six months.00:01:54.028
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- I decided to extend my view00:01:59.767
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- so I took my camera to Germany00:02:02.376
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- and visited Berlin, Frankfurt00:02:06.009
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- and here again I tried to record and explore00:02:09.699
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- the current scene of activism.00:02:15.274
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- I met people from Occupy Frankfurt00:02:23.106
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- who had been trying to block the European Central Bank for three days.00:02:27.694
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- I was shooting the interaction00:02:34.788
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- between the police and demonstrants00:02:37.358
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- I tried to capture the atmosphere of such public events,00:02:43.315
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- how they are perceived by people.00:02:50.342
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- And once again it is a video reportage00:02:53.389
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- without any commentary or conclusions.00:02:56.129
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Holesovicka vyzva :D