25 Words per Second
Tomáš Svoboda (b. 1974) is showing his output from the last few years, relating to his longtime concern with multiple choices in the narration of a single story.He offers a wide scope of alternative interpretations in approaching an event, leaving the process of reconstructing the event up to the spectator´s imagination. Svoboda tackles the problems of the simultaneous intersection of several different temporal planes, and of the correlation between the immediate experience and memory. The exhibition 25 Words per Second deals with the simultaneous appeal of text and image, and the use of cinematic language there where it overlaps the boundaries of its usual terrain.
- I invent the titles of my exhibitions myself.00:00:12.684
- This particular title sums up the whole theme.00:00:16.984
- According to European standards,00:00:21.853
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- The core of the exhibition00:00:29.149
- is represented by text-based videos00:00:32.890
- that use cinematic narrative methods.00:00:37.738
- However, these are expressed by words.00:00:43.594
- So the title is a pun combining the medium of video,00:00:49.008
- hence "25 frames",00:00:55.019
- with the fact of using words in the videos.00:00:58.130
- Much like in my previous works,00:01:03.252
- the viewers are required to construct the story themselves,00:01:06.752
- using some simple concepts or hints.00:01:12.626
- So this may be seen as an extreme attempt00:01:16.909
- at narrating an abstract story00:01:21.207
- with words characterized by cinematic dynamics.00:01:25.529
- Green screen was developed00:01:32.096
- for shooting people with blue clothes.00:01:35.596
- What about those with green clothes?00:01:39.596
- Those are shot against a blue screen.00:01:43.096
- At least I think so...00:01:48.611
- This is also connected with the work Avatar.00:01:53.381
- There is a man in the improvised cinema00:01:57.788
- who tells the plot of the movie.00:02:02.719
- I found the tables on Google.00:02:15.851
- The image material in the videos00:02:19.734
- wasn't shot by myself, I just found it.00:02:25.624
- It was made by someone else.00:02:33.507
- But that's irrelevant to the story.00:02:37.574
- - Which seat do you prefer? - By the window.00:02:41.064
- Why?00:02:47.919
- The booklet is also a part of the exhibition.00:02:50.591
- The title is "One Second of a Movie".00:02:57.011
- As you leaf through it,00:03:02.760
- the time code goes down to zero in 25 frames.00:03:05.760
- That's another reference to the title of the exhibition.00:03:10.260
- And there is some free space for imaginary images.00:03:15.760
- You see, everything is interconnected.00:03:20.760