Homo Video
Our film wants to notice how television affects the households and declare its crucial role in the configuration of many lives of common people. Television is a medium which gives us opportunity to live parallel lives in our emotional or cognitive sphere. Watching the television allows us in illusive way to experience all kinds of emotions in concentrated mode. While watching TV, choosing the program to watch we declare, what we want to see, what is interresting for us and what we lack in our private lives. By watching we deal with very personal things connected to our real lives, which we experience too or want to experience and TV is our companion by this: love, relationship configurations, family problems, interpersonal interactions, fear, entertainment, gossips, ridicules, excitement, succes… Television affects our view of the world, our thinking, a way of dealing with time and free time. It is part of our habits, stereotypes, escape route from the stress and worry of everyday life. Television influences even the communication between the members of the household. It is so common part of life, so present and spread, that it needs to be reflected in a film.By television watching we can see also some interresting social functions. Sometimes the television brings family together, sometimes it helps to separate people. It shows, who is important in the family, who has the power, what is important for those people. Sometimes the TV gives us feeling, that we are not alone and we can live a life with the TV series characters. Considering all this, observing these TV situations by camera could bring us a mirror of today´s values and human desires. Portrait of spectators in their home environments and television commentary will constitute one of the reflections of our time.