CZ

2021

13 min

Finished

Can You Still Feel The Butterflies?

Directing: Radek Brousil

Synopsis

Main hero - half-dead fish costume wanders through a city and a country in a mental dialog speaking to a female hyperobject about the end, shame, guilt and possibility to do something. Skateboarding, smoking cigarettes and questions about “feeling the butterflies” together with long, distancing shots and captivating music as if would refer to melancholic romance of independent 90s cult movies. The authenticity of intimate experience is however constantly alienated by the overal theatricality of costumes and props and mainly ever present shadows of real catastrophe. Intentionally unresolved ambivalence of intimate and real-life drama can be hence read as resolutive appeal. 
Critical reading of Czech culture and history mingles with personal sentiment for the landscapes of our childhood.
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