3.-4.3.2020
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

HIP HOP, MY RELEASE

Kolumbie, 2013, 22 min
Simon Raising
03.03.2020 14:00

Can rap be a way out of the prison? 
Hip Hop is often associated with drugs and violence and therefore seen by many as a way into prison, but Alma Negra, DJ Roky and New York, three inmates at Distrial prison in Bogota, Colombia, demonstrate the opposite. For two hours a day they are allowed to leave the courtyard to write and practice their music. Rap enables them to protest and share their experiences in life. This film tells their story and the impact Hip Hop has on them.

Simon is an ethnographic researcher and filmmaker from Utrecht, Netherlands. He attained an MA in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre, University of Mancester and BA in Cultural Anthropology from teh University of Utrecht. During his MA degree he has made two documentary. The latter was an ethnographic film project carried out over the summer and autumn in Bogota, Colombia.

dialogues: Spanish, subtitles: English, Czech
Production, director, camera: Simon Rasing

KULTURA DARU

Polsko, 2011, 45 min
M. Eichelberger, L. Kaminski
04.03.2020 17:00

The filmmakers follow various alternative forms of socail thought, based on cooperation, openness and direct exchange of experience. They encounter on the various initiatives that seek to restore the dynamic exchange of people and culture. Dialoque with representatives and activists such as: open source trends, Permaculture, Qi gong, „Art exchange“, „Food not bombs“, presents a new from of „gift“ meaning.

Maciej Eichelberger: Graduated from the academy of film and television in Warsaw, has studied anthropology at Warsaw University, author of the documentary and reports, permaculture activist.

Lukasz Kaminski: student of anthropology at Warsaw University, author of documentary film. He travels and writes.

Directiors and production: Maciej Eichelberger, Lukasz Kaminski
Language of dialogues: Polish, English
Language of subtitles: English, Polish, Czech

Lauching of movie:
"Eyes and Lenses" - 8th Ethnografic Film Review, Warsaw, 2011

MASA

Česká republika, 2017, 32 min
M. Pavlásek, I. Bystřičan
03.03.2020 16:30

The mass is a distillation of human evolution, a parable about the treatment of substance, an image of the control over bodies that are hanged on the world’s tissue, or else disgorged from the ocean mass onto dry land, which is interwoven with bodies and the movement of hunters, gatherers, and vagabonds. Our observation of the various forms of abstracted masses, which we become part of at the same time, creates a platform of eternal presence – an active void if you will, which revolves in a closed circle, as though it had neither beginning nor end. What is left is just the stark presence of the traces of bared lives.

Michal Pavlásek  is social anthropologist, university teacher, freelance journalist and documentarist, Turkish coffee lover, researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Co-founder of Anthropictures - flexible association of social scientists providing independent field research. In his research focuses on migration and multuculturalism. He is author of movies Searching for the Exit (2016), Another Vojvodovo: thinking in pictures (2013), Time Bows Beneath the Burden of the Grapes. The Past, Czechs and Germans in the Serbian Banat (2012).

Ivo Bystřičan is documentary filmmaker, story-editor and screenwriter. He directed several feature documentary films like Copper Age (2010), My Last 150 000 Cigarettes (2013), Byeway (2014), Mr. Chytil´s Crime (2014), Middle Dusk (2015) and many others. He graduated from sociology at Masaryk University in Brno and documentary filmmaking at FAMU in Prague.

Director, Production, Script: M. Pavlásek, I. Bystřičan
Camera, Edit: I.Bystřičan

Language of Dialogues: English, Greek
Language of subtitles: Czech