Open Call is an exhibition created in collaboration with Martina Smutná and Alžběta Bačíková. In this project, the creative approaches themselves are let go through the terms and conditions of a competition. Leaving the familiar medium of fine art the exhibition ventures on an excursion into the world of film production. It creates a situation on the backdrop of an unfinished fantasy film. The exclusive product being offered is, in this case, an experimental scenography method, developed to create fantastical worlds. We borrowed the presentation format from a real-life guide for beginner film professionals, which details how to tackle it successfully. The exhibition shows Martina Smutná's objects and scenery created for this specific space, and a short film Open Call in collaboration with Alžběta Bačíková.
Open Call
2016
Open Call reflects on the possible merits of the open call format in both film and gallery settings. The film is a combination of documentary approach and fiction and reflects on the potency and difficulties of an imaginative story. It alternates evenly between acted scenes in which the set designer explains his method with imaginative takes from as yet unfinished film The Last of Approver - a very ambitious and expensive film project. A young creator is applying for a position with a movie. The emphasized uniqueness of his project combats its purposefulness and his ambition to succeed. In the heat of the moment, individual skills are stretched to the max. The subject matter of creative activity is bent by the current demands determined by the fictitious market and can only grow through the net of requirements. It seems to be predetermined which aspects will be allowed to develop and which will remain inchoate.
