KINO FOTOGRAFIC: BLOOD KIN

Thursday, September 3, 7 PM
Admission: Voluntary

You are warmly invited to an accompanying event for Plexus, an exhibition by German photographer Elena Helfrecht exploring family memory and intergenerational trauma. On Thursday, September 3 at 7:00 PM, Galerie Fotografic presents a screening of the experimental film Blood Kin.

This expressive feature by acclaimed director Miroslav Bambušek resonates strongly with both the theme and execution of the exhibition—unearthing uncomfortable chapters of national history and offering an uncompromising reflection on Czech collective guilt, alongside a striking audiovisual experience at the intersection of fine art and cinema.

BLOOD KIN
CZ, 2021, 85 min | Directed by: Miroslav Bambušek
In Czech with English subtitles

Sudetenland. Present. The grandson of a murdered factory owner is hired as a mystical guide to a wealthy old man’s fate. The curtly sketched wandering journey through a desolate landscape to the past reveals the roots of human brutality. Motives of personal morality, historical guilt for collaborating with the Nazis and redemption through revenge are unleashed in a phantasmagoric hallucinatory feria, a cruel dance of dehumanized figures driven to fulfillment by revenge, greed, and a faint vision of redemption. The historical allegory of Blood Kin, based on a real event, balances between documentary verisimilitude and expressive, surreal dramatization.
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