16 Years of the Fotograf Zone Festival
We invite you to the closing event of the final edition of Fotograf Zone Festival.
How Not to Lose Your Soul
A Shared Look Back, Moderated by Jiří Ptáček
Let’s bring back the shared memories of an incredible sixteen editions of the Fotograf Festival, born behind the window bars of a tiny room on Školská Street and since evolved into Prague’s largest regular photography event. Together with eyewitness Jiří Ptáček, we’ll press the shutter sixteen times, take a cleansing bath in memory, and, during the final ironing, try to figure out how not to lose our souls in the process.
Sixteen editions of the festival, fifty issues of the magazine and almost a quarter of a century of Fotograf Zone give us plenty of material to look back on. Especially now that we have decided not to keep certain things alive at any cost. There will be no festival next year, and the printed edition of magazine is also coming to an end. So it is time to revisit our shared memories, remember the people and moments without which Fotograf would not be what it is, and finally turn our attention to what comes after this chapter.
Program
2:00 PM | Denisa Půbalová – multisensory workshop
4:30 PM |Resisterra – workshop with Anna Mírková (theme: water/river)
4:30 PM | EDU Seniors – screening, Viktor Chomiak / Elpida
6:30 PM | Asphalt Lovers – performance by Azolla Collective
7:00 PM | 15 Years of Fotograf Zone Festival – moderated by Jiří Ptáček
8:00 PM | Wild Kin Afterparty – DJ: gin_and_platonic
Hauntology and the Never-Ending Presence
We warmly invite you to the opening of the group exhibition Hauntology and the Never-Ending Presence.
Fotograf Contemporary – Continuum
Photography is not static. It moves between past and present, reality and construction, private and public space, documentation and fiction. The exhibition brings together several generations of artists represented by Fotograf Contemporary, presenting photography as a medium that continually evolves depending on who works with it, the means they employ, and the purposes they pursue.
Marie Lukáčová, Karina Kottová – Daughters of the Flood
Daughters of the Flood is a visually and thematically multi-layered film that weaves together an intimate family story with mythology and ecological-political commentary. At the heart of the narrative are three generations of women—a daughter, a mother, and a grandmother—whose dialogues and memories intertwine with semi-fictional television reports on floods, archival footage of raging waters, and animated sequences featuring aquatic creatures.