Screening: Marie Lukáčová (Jiří Sirůček)
A Sunday midday screening of a film by Marie Lukáčová (in collaboration with Jiří Sirůček) at Kino Družba, as part of a two-hour film block.
About the authors
Jiří Sirůček is a doctoral student at the Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where he also teaches. He focuses on posthumanist media theory and the philosophy of technology.
He is the author of the books Neklidné hranice: posthumanistická planetární (po)etika (Restless Borders: A Posthumanist Planetary (Po)etics, 2022), Den splněného přání (2015), and Hesseho romány Demian a Stepní vlk ve světle Nietzschovy filozofie (Hesse’s Novels Demian and Steppenwolf in the Light of Nietzsche’s Philosophy, 2013).
He has collaborated with visual artist Marie Lukáčová and has exhibited/presented at the Brno House of Arts (Dům umění města Brna). At the 11th edition of UFF (2021), his film (a collaboration with Marie Lukáčová) was screened at Kino Družba as part of the Sunday film program.
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Marie Lukáčová (b. 1991, Opava) is a Czech interdisciplinary artist living in Prague. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and in the Supermedia Studio at UMPRUM in Prague. In 2019 she was a finalist for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and won the award for best experimental film at Ji.hlava. She was a member of the collective Čtvrtá vlna (Fourth Wave), which drew attention to sexism in the Czech art scene.