THE PRAYER
A few mostly skeptical images and sounds that, in addition to doubts, also include a micro-hopeful look into the future. (The video was completed a few weeks before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.)
The video is based on a short shot (a few seconds), capturing families with children skating on a frozen body of water. It was an experience to see this ordinary happiness. This "purity of life" is deconstructed through various audiovisual stylizations.
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:4 minutes
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Completion Date:February 14, 2022
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Jan Adamove (1971)
Visual artist, film theorist and pedagogue. Since 2004 he has worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Intermedia and Digital Media (Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica / Slovakia). He devotes himself to experimental video films in which he focuses in topics such as: memory, power, movement, time. Part of the production is focused on live performances through audiovisual performance.
BREATH, CICA Museum (21.6.-9.7.2023: Gimpo, Korea) / Golden Buzzer (video)
BAD VIDEOART VI (12.-13.5.2023: Tbilisi, Georgia) / Steps (video)
VARIABILITES EN ECHOS (27.4.2023: Le Lalano, France) / Purposeful Walk (video)
26 RECONTRES TRAVERSE VIDÉO (15.-19.3. 2023 : Toulouse, France) / Purposeful Walk (video)
VISIONS IN THE NUNNERY (7.10.-6.11.2022 : London, UK) / Purposeful Walk (video)
WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (22.-23.4. 2022 : Morgantown, USA) / The Prayer (video)
BAD VIDEOART (2.- 5. 12. 2021 : Moscow, Russia) / The Sky over Lucenec (video)
KATI PATANG FILM FESTIVAL VOL.1 (11.-12.9. 2021: Mumbai, India) / Happiness (video)
SPHERE (14.-23.5.2021 : Calcutta, India) / Purposeful walk (video) / Victor's Vector (video)
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA (1.5.-21.5. 2021 : Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) / The Doctor (video)
Tune in to Green (23.2-23.5.2021 : Austin, Texas, USA) / Test (video)
Pantalla Rota – Broken Screen (december 2020 – 2021: Buenos Aires, Argentina) / Action (video)
UNCG International Online Sustainbility Short Competition (25.4.- 30.6. 2020 : Greensboro, USA) / Tight Fight (video)
Llawn festival (13.9.2019 - 15.9.2019 : Llandudno, Wales, UK) / Happiness (video)
Saigon Experimental Film Festival II (21.9.2019 : Saigon, Vietnam) / Jump (video)
Arty bokom (23.6.2019 - 30.8.2019 : Lučenec, Slovakia) / solo exhibition
IMAGO MUNDI - Luciano Benetton Collection, Salone Degli Incanti, Join the Dots (29.5. – 2. 9. 2018: Trieste, Italy) / THE SECRET (Acrylic on canvas, 10x12)
UNI JAZZ KAŠTAN (21.5. 2018: Prag, Czech Republic) / BEHU HEBKÝ BREH (video projection for live performance Yumiko Yoshimoto/Martin Klapper/OHOUR)
SEPARATED SPACES, Béla Dornyay Musem (12.3. - 10.4. 2018: Salgótariján, Hungary) / CERED REC (video)
re-VÍZIA 20, Dom umenia (15.3.-15.4. 2018 : Bratislava, Slovakia) / BOJ/JOB (video)
21 RECONTRES TRAVERSE VIDÉO, Lycée Ozenne (7.-31.3. 2018 : Toulouse, France) / TIME (video)
19 FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS ET EXPÉRIMENTAUX DE PARIS (4.- 15.10. 2017 : Paris, France) / EWA NEWÁ WAWU (video)
One Belt One Road : New Silk Road | Videoart.Ist (25. – 28. 10. 2017: Izmir, Turkey) TIGHT/FIGHT (video)
Visual Poetry Stredoslovenská galéria / Central Slovakian Gallery (8.6.2017 – 27.8. 2017 : Banská Bystrica , Slovakia) / MM (video)
18 FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS ET EXPÉRIMENTAUX DE PARIS (11.10. - 16.10. 2016 : Paris, France) / BOJ/JOB (video)
TRIAL /BOMBURA KLUB; (21.6.2016): Brezno, Slovakia / video projection for live performance Yumiko Yoshimoto & OHOUR
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA (15.4. - 19.4.2015 : Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) / BOJ/JOB (video)
Poe(vi)zia : vizuálna poézia; Galéria Médium / ( 8.10. - 25.10.2015 : Bratislava, Slovakia) / MM (video)