Biograph Pressure (Biograf Tlak) 

Experimental short film
27 min
2024

Anna Luňáková
Jakub Štourač

Biograph Pressure is a fictional biography of the phenomenon of pressure. An ode to printmaking and a visual poem about line cuttings and working machines. About disappearing footprints in the mud between the Ministry of Print, the Hotel Fatigue and the man who steals lino floor in the nights.

The film's storyline is based on the myth of the creature Bennu, a mythological being of antiquity who takes the form of a heron. Her name means "to shine" or "to rise" and is a symbol of rebirth. Her emblem is the mud in which everything is born and lost. Bennu is also an asteroid that returns periodically and that is on a collision course with Earth. Samples of soil and clay which some scientific hypotheses suggest is the possible origin of life on Earth have recently been taken from this asteroid by a probe called Osiris-Rex.

There is only apparent order in the ordinary. Issues related to printmaking are written into people's lives in this world. For example, in the figure of the "woman without prints" who has lost the ability to leave traces, that is, to be fully present. Certain phenomena are regularly repeated; we get up and go to bed, eat and work. But in the workshops of the mysterious Ministry of Print, entropy reigns. Specters whose origins are unknown appear in the sieve. The heron which according to myth was supposed to return to Earth and rebirth it, is wounded and does not arrive. Indistinguishable noise that will consume everything, there will be no more tones, no more voice, just an impenetrable dried out reeds.

The film explores the working practices and processes of printmaking, and more broadly the physical processes and themes that accompany the medium of printmaking in various contemporary and historical contexts. The dramaturgical line of the film grasps printmaking in different ways: as a tool of power, as a craft, as the emancipation of the work of committed collectives, or as the genesis of contemporary media.

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Foundations of the Work of the Sun (Základy Práce Slunce)

Experimental short film from analogue photos.
14 min
2023

Anna Luňáková
Jakub Štourač

In the end, all the benefits must not be consumed by time. Therefore, where the Sun works, the overall untidiness of the world is replaced by new foundations. Short narrative of the legs - factographic poem about the journey to work.

"Leibniz inspired poem in a setting of Andrej Platonov's pit."

The Foundations of the Work of the Sun (2023) is a short film-poem consisting of interconnecting “micro-essays” that collectively constitute a “fictional documentary” about the work of the sun. Inspired by (among other things) G.W. Leibniz’s theory of a pre-established harmony and his contributions to the science of optics, the film reflects on how the camera “translates” sunlight into intelligible images and how a photograph might be understood as the visual document of an embodied perspective. Based on a poetic sound composition, each story in the film touches on themes of labor, exhaustion, and utopianism. One chapter alludes to Andrei Platonov’s The Foundation Pit (1968), while another follows the story of a worker whose life is recorded in photograms, snapshots, and prints. Taken together, these “micro-essays” address the question: How to think collectively through the individual?

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Eavesdropping (Odposlech)

Video version of a theatre performance and research that could not be presented due to pandemic.
36 min 
2021

Anna Luňáková
Jakub Štourač


Behold, my voice

videopoem 
3:10
2021


I don't even epistemology

videopoem
3:40
2021