Ivan Ladislav Galeta
Index 28 : Obsession: Structuring Time and Space
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Original format video
Year 1978-1989
Artist(s) Ivan Ladislav Galeta
Booklet 20 pages (French, English)
Running time 51 min
Films
TV PING PONG 1976 (1978) 2'
TWO TIMES IN ONE SPACE 1976 (1984) 12'
SFAIRA 1985-1895 (1984) 10'
WATER PULU 1869 1896 (1987-1988) 9'
WAL(L)ZEN (1989) 6'
PIRAMIDAS 1972-1984 (1984) 12'
Description
"The works of Ladislav Galeta assembled on this DVD—each one a cinematic gem of extreme precision and compositional rigor—represent the avant-garde's expansion of the structural film concept, fleeing modernism. Yet the setting sun in sfaĩra 1985-1895 also symbolizes the transcendence of this notion. Galeta's maniacal worlds, true vessels and Gesamtkunstwerks, belong to a long synesthetic and syncretic tradition, that of the avant-gardes, occupying a singular place in the history of experimental film. These are cinematic meditations on series and repetition, symmetry and linearity, algorithmics and rhetoric—structures that can be endlessly redeployed, thus extending the long history of a parallel aesthetic."
— Georg Schöllhammer