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Neptune

Adéla Babanová

ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava

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Title
Neptune
Gallery
ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava
Year
2018
Duration
38 min
Format & Technical

35mm film, black & white, transferred to HD MOV
Edition of 5 + 2 AP

The story of the movie Neptune is based on the real events that happened in Czechoslovakia in 1964, when secret documents from the Nazis were discovered in the Black Lake in South Bohemia. Years after, the story turns out to be a communist propaganda campaign under the name Neptune. Babanová’s film takes this story to unfold the mechanisms of mass media propaganda, as a way to articulate fiction and reality, through two characters a skeptical journalist and a police officer who try to reveal the state operation of disinformation.

 

Adéla Babanová

Artist

1980, Prague

Adéla Babanová

Adéla Babanová (Prague, 1980) is a Czech artist who works with moving image, film and video-installation. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2006. She presented her work at many solo and group exhibitions in museums and institutions such as the National Gallery, Prague; Zacheta, Warsaw; or KUMU, Tallinn. Babanová has also participated in many film festivals such as IFF Karlovy, Vary; IFF, Jihlava; IFF Febiofest, Prague; or LOOP Barcelona Festival.
Babanová works primarily with short fiction films that straddle the boundary between videoart and film, cooperating with her brother Džian who is the author of almost all scripts and music. Her films are often based on real events from the recent Czechoslovak history that are controversial or mysterious. In her works, she introduces archival footage that she manipulates to transform into a completely new story. Her movies refer to the communist rhetoric and misinformation, rewriting the history and memory loss which are still inadequately reflected in Czech postcommunist society.