Wednesday, March 16, 2016
7:00pm
Czech Center Cinema
Roman Štětina’s film essay Lost Case will be screened at the Czech Center’s Cinema. The film re-uses the footage of the iconic TV series Columbo, shot between 1968 and 2003. Štětina created a poetic non-verbal narrative, which investigates the boundaries between the character of the famous detective and the actual actor, Peter Falk. In 2014, Štětina was awarded the Czech Republic’s prestigious Jindřich Chalupecký Award for young Czech artists for Lost Case.
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Jindřich Chalupecký Award
Initiated by playwright, writer and the former Czech president Václav Havel, artist Theodor Pištěk, and poet and artist Jiří Kolář, an annual award for young Czech artists under the age of 35 was founded in 1990. The Award’s name is in honor of Jindřich Chalupecký, leading art and literary critic, essayist and philosopher. The Award is conferred for an extraordinary artistic achievement in visual arts. It is designed for the emerging generation of artists whose work has the potential to gain recognition in the context of both Czech and international art scene and which embodies, both in its contents and form, an exceptional attitude. The Award is run by Jindřich Chalupecký Society, which operates as one of the most prominent bodies on the post-revolutionary Czech art scene, organizing exhibitions, various related programs, discussions, conferences and residencies, fostering the recognition of contemporary Czech art in local and international contexts.
