Join us for an evening of screening organised in collaboration with the Czech Centre London, taking place within the framework of the current exhibition Toyen: Dreaming in the Margins at Richard Saltoun Gallery London. 

 

Jan Němec, Czech Republic 2005, 63’, 35 mm, English subtitles

Cast: Zuzana Stivínová, Jan Budař, Tobias Jirous, Marek Bouda.

 

 

Forging links between reality and imagination, this is a lyrical portrait of Toyen, a great Czech surrealist who broke into the male-dominated art world. Set during WWII when Toyen was hiding her Jewish lover, fellow artist Jindrich Heisler, in her flat, the film reconstructs their lives in wartime Prague. Linking up fragments and details and mixing archive footage, stylized sequences and re-enactments with natural sounds, Němec  creates a collage of multi-layered images evoking the spirit of the avant-garde and a true sense of the era. A film full of visual poetry.

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