COOK, EAT & CLEAN – Ritual of Disobedience 

SAT 28 NOV

Wunderschön und ruhig gelegen

Director: Jakub Vrba & LUKAS MARXT

Format: Short Film

Duration: 13 min

Short description

Like a painting with a beautiful landscape: groups of trees, gently rolling meadows, fog covered, seemingly deserted. A bit of nature in smooth colors, evenly framed.

a beautiful and quiet location unfolds in a beautiful, quiet, and seemingly deserted landscape. As layers of association gather over the image, the film shifts focus to landscape as a construction manufactured by beholders. A playful commentary on artistic production and the conventions of perception, it invites us to reconsider landscape as reenactment.

BIO

Jakub Vrba was born in Karlovy Vary and lives in Vienna. His work consists mainly of drawing, sculpture, video, and film. But not only. Jakub Vrba contributes with comics and drawings for different magazines and collective projects, and he also builds pyrotechnical sculptures and costumes in the tradition of baroque theatre. He addresses notions of spectacle, pathos, unpaid labour and the dictatorship of everyday life contingencies. He does so by exploring enactment, reenactment, rehearsal, the study of space through formal and metaphorical exercises, and sometimes humor.

Lukas Marxt is an artist and filmmaker living and working between Cologne and Graz. His work explores the dialogue between human and geological existence, and the impact of man upon nature. His works have been presented internationally in exhibitions and film festivals, including the Berlinale and the Gijón International Film Festival.