Synopsis
“One day, I came to the realisation that it had been two years since I had last seen the sea. The sea has always been a symbol of freedom. I decided that two years was long enough (from an emotional point of view), and so I went back to the sea, but this time with the intention of not actually ‘seeing’ it. I asked my friends to take me blindfolded to the shores of the Baltic Sea in East Germany along with a large mirror.” Thanks to this action event in particular, it was possible to trace Lumír Hladík’s Czechoslovak work and thereby supplement the notion of action art at the time and its unique connection to film.