Czechoslovak Electronic Image
The film happens to be directed by the granddaughter of Radek Pilař, wellknown creator of several beloved Czech children animated series such as Rumcajs, Manka a Cipísek, and somewhat less known as a pioneer of video art in Czechoslovakia. The documentary brushes the dust off of those old VHS cassettes to get a glimpse of early electronic images in our country and uncover the yet unmapped history of pre-revolution Czech video art. Petr Skala, Woody Vasulka, Jaroslav Vančát, Tomáš Kepka, Lucie Svobodová, Pavel Scheufler, Ivan Tatíček, Věra Geislerová, Roman Milerský – decades later they all still share their enthusiasm, obsessive curiosity, and futuristic visions about the use of new technologies for artistic expression.
Adam East & Rebecca West
Adam is a Slovak documentary film-maker and bohemian, always comes late and has fathered a second child with a well brought-up Rebecca from a wealthy part of Milan. Their joint living space alternates between Marseilles, Milan, Prague and Martin in Slovakia. Even though sometimes the dishes keep flying they are well matched. Perhaps what one has an abundance of the other one lacks. The children are getting bigger and necessity says that they should settle down somewhere at last Suddenly life is at stake. The practical differences between between East and West, as regards the social system, education. Love always wins out but sometimes along the way loses its senses. And Adam films it, all of it.