Ji.hlava
Milos Sejn’s films are a hidden treasure of Czechoslovak experimental film. In the 1970s, Šejn made improvised / spontaneous / lyrical “landscape” films, records of movement in the landscape, rocks, gorges, streams, capturing contacts with natural materials. After a thorough reconstruction and digitisation in the National Film Archive after forty years for the first time on screen, in Jihlava on October 27, 2019, in Ponrepo in winter 2020.
The works of Miloš Šejn from the 1970s represent an unusual form of landscape film. It is based on a combination of land-art and physical performance, and can be perceived as both lyrical and spontaneous, but at the same time, silenced and concentrated. It uses the camera as an extension of vision and of the body and also as a tool to capture physical contact with nature, often in conjunction with extreme physical experiences. His films testify of his own experience as well as of the role of man in the surrounding ecosystem. With the filmmaker himself acting an active participant in the event, the National Film Archive will present a selection of his newly digitized films, some of which will be screened for the first time.
Martin Blažíček
