UNHEIMLICHE

• The theme "umheimliche" has appeared in my work.00:00:13.606
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• The term was coined by Freud.00:00:16.502
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• It refers to something that is familiar but a bit different or estranged.00:00:18.791
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• The estragement of something so close may effect us alarmingly.00:00:27.875
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• More or less intuitively, on the basis of these three strong personal preferences00:00:34.398
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• the conception originated that later evolved step by step.00:00:38.723
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• What you can see here it is a result that00:00:43.357
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• over against the Freud´s term00:00:45.133
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• it goes back to the roots, to the home and to its absence,00:00:46.879
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• or, on the contrary, to the things that make home comfortable and pleasant.00:00:51.143
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• On the one hand there are things that characterize the home as a trap00:01:01.785
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• from which there is no escape. As a punishment or straitjacket.00:01:06.482
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• This is present in Eva Koťátková´s drawings called "Domestic Prison".00:01:10.366
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• Next to them, there are pictures with architectonic elements00:01:15.142
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• which are by Josef Bolf, who works with the element of worrisome waiting.00:01:19.949
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• Something is happening but we don´t know what00:01:26.000
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• because the rooms are almost empty,00:01:29.805
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• only sometimes there is a head, or a piece of trunk or a broken window,00:01:31.995
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• making it appear very terrifying,00:01:36.870
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• more so than if there were some bloody scenes.00:01:40.385
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• In case of Richard, his collection of found things00:01:44.250
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• has extended by a dumbell found in a derelict lodging house, and a shopping list.00:01:48.164
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• A found shopping list written by a stranger.00:02:09.050
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• We used it and did the shopping according to the list.00:02:13.647
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• It is very interesting because it is very homeless.00:02:20.630
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• It connects to the video by Eva Koťátková00:02:25.738
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• called "Pile, Exercise, or Controlled Memory Loss".00:02:30.608
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• You can see there a group of people00:02:38.178
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• who move around an old bunker made of old pieces of furniture.00:02:40.415
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• There are very intimate motifs,00:02:45.692
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• however there are also motifs that thematize the space,00:02:48.303
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• on the margin of the public and the intimate.00:02:52.669
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• This may be perceived as the least alarming.00:02:56.693
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• I think we managed to find common points,00:03:01.469
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• all the works meet on several levels.00:03:06.063
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• It may not be perceived as so alarming,00:03:11.414
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• but in all of them there is some oddity.00:03:14.621
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• And that´s what I wanted the most.00:03:16.569

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