1980, 4:12, music: Pavel Richter

Performers: Petr Nikolaev, Michal Blažek, Markéta Černá, Daniel Závorka.

From the collection of Galerie moderního umění v Hradci Králové

Project is on the border between film and the documentation of a happening. Some shots were enacted for the camera, so it was not a simple document of the event. The film was screened several times in public from a 16mm projector, and at the end, an endless film loop ran from the last two shots of the cassette tape fluttering the street. Baumbruck, together with the visual artist Čestmír Suška and the musician Pavel Richter, founded Visual Theater Kolotoč in 1980. They combined live performace and film or slide projections in the performance Paňáci a Vycpaňáci or Bersidejsi. Baumbruck directed several film documentaries of the activities of the young alternative scene in the Czech Republic, such as House in Malechov or Jiří Sozanský's installations in Most.

During his studies at FAMU Michal Baumbruck (1956) made several films mapping the unofficial art scene in Czechoslovakia. In 1985 left for the United States, and worked there as a director and cameraman for the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress and the National Book Awards, for PBS and reporting on the Yugoslavian War. In 1993, came back to Prague and here focused on advertising spots for multinational companies and private clients (O2, T-Mobile, Škoda or Orange). He also works on long-term documentary projects focused on the Czech visual art scene. Since 2019 he is teaching at the Cinematography Department at FAMU.