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The films selected for this year’s screening by psychotherapist and psychologist Adam Táborský offer a glimpse into a space where mental health becomes a source of inspiration, raw vulnerability, an acknowledged weapon, and a place of confession and relief.
Dragoljub Raša Todosijević
In the broadest sense, Todosijević's exhibition and his lifelong artistic practice balance on the edge of the possibilities of interpreting various symbols originating from history, our present, or the art world itself. It represents walking a very fine line between moral and perverse interpretations of history or contemporary global events, which are not entirely distinguishable at first glance.
Bernie Reid, Jan Boháč, Linda Dostálková + 14 more
The exhibition is not a historical cross-section of Ester Krumbachová's work (although it does reflect it), but rather an extensive network of original material, numerous texts, images, and artifacts that Krumbachová dealt with and surrounded herself with throughout her life. It primarily presents Ester Krumbachová's archive/estate in thematically interconnected blocks, revealing her thinking about costume design, particularly the role of detail and the use of color, the interconnection of meaning, artistic form, and the overall atmosphere of a film, her work with text that copies spoken language and folk storytelling rather than high literary style, her relationship to magic, realism, subjectivity, male and female polarity, and the hierarchy of species and social and professional positions.
Vladimír Ambroz
In the second half of the 1970s, Ambroz was primarily engaged in performance, which he documented using the film besides texts and photographs, and in 1980, even using a video camera. For years, he was convinced that he had his own motion picture recording of his Air performance in 1976. But when the filmstrip was digitized in 2016, it turned out to contain something completely different.
Beáta Istvánkó
Beáta Istvánkó (born 1987) is a Budapest-based art historian and curator. After finishing her studies she worked as the project coordinator of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, and has curated numerous independent projects. In 2017 she founded the contemporary art publication store and gallery, ISBN books+gallery. This is the first independent bookstore focused on contemporary art publications in Budapest.
Ivars Gravlejs
Our films can be divided in two categories: art films (following an idea, an experiment) and documents (everyday life in the school: fights among classmates, teachers). Movies  called “I.R. Piktuers” (I. = Ivars, R. = Rinalds, Piktuers = twisted word “pictures” were mostly made between 1992-1993 at the elementary school in Riga.
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.”
Milan Kozelka
Conceptual artist, performer, and writer Milan Kozelka (1948‒2014) left an indelible mark on Czech art, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He devoted himself to poetry from the 1960s onwards, and his poems are now considered part of the Czech response to American Beat literature. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he turned his attention to action art.
Grace Samboh
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, 1984, Grace Samboh lives in between Yogyakarta and Medan, Indonesia. Due to questioning (a little bit) too many things all at once, she does curatorial work as well as research. She truly believes that every person needs at least three copies of themselves.
Martin Netočný
The image of pages in a textbook being turned by a machine and standardised scientific restoration processes may arouse concerns but simultaneously hope. The experience of Western modernity, whether optimistic or disastrous, is a significant heritage which we should take good care of. We already know only too well what crimes and violence modern western people were capable of committing or at least took part in. However, we should not forget that modern institutions, such as the state, schools, science or museums, have created the infrastructure for our better lives.