Supervisor: MgA. Milan Mikuláštík

The film essay follows a creator who, through her own work and the work of other personalities, tries to understand what the phenomenon of media creation can mean today. Historical figures of media creators from the heyday of spiritualism enter into a dialogue with current tendencies in fine art, ethnography and alternative spirituality.

In auto-ethnographic research, the role of the researcher is connected with the role of the participant in the environment, into which the attempt is made to penetrate not only analytically, but also through her own artistic practice.

Through interviews, observational situations, performative acts and fragments of everyday life, the field of media creation is mapped in its institutional, mythological and intimate levels. Facts are intertwined with speculative fiction and contemporary aesthetic and theoretical frameworks.

Within the film essay, space is also created for experimental methods and establishing contact with something or someone else, something beyond the creator herself. Becoming a media artist, a media work, does a contemporary media artist even exist?

Can one become one? Who decides? And where does the desire to belong to this world come from?

A kaleidoscopic and yet viewer-friendly documentary-speculative essay emerges, saturated with as many digressions and questions as the researcher-artist herself allows herself to go and ask.

MgA. Johana Novotná,

Studio:

Dissertation: Post-medium core

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