Audio-visual Art

MAKE UP

family documentary strategy portrait care erotic

Erotic portrait of a desperate daughter talking to a desperate mother. Underwear, huge busts, palms and Maria Callas.

artistsPetr Hátle
place_Neurčené město
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familydocumentary strategyportraitcareerotic
editingPetr Hátle
categoryAudio-visual Art
published21. 11. 2009
languageČesky / English
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MAKE UP
Minh Thang Pham
In the video They Read, he gradually and casually introduces several intergenerational pairs. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters speak about their origins and ability to speak their “native” languages. Members of the younger generation admit, in fluent, natural Czech or Slovak, that they’re not so confident when speaking the language of their parents – that it’s the “kitchen” dialect of the second generation of immigrants. And it’s these linguistic shifts that the artist sees as a symbol of the rift that appears between him and his parents.
Jiří David
Jiří David created this film for entirely personal reasons: as a gift for his father (who had shot the original footage) in order to raise his spirits as he suffered from an incurable illness. “The film’s creation was entirely unplanned. I took my father’s 8 mm films and transferred them onto VHS in the simple conditions of our flat: i.e., by projecting them on a screen and filming it with a VHS camera.”