1998, 6:13 min.
Kočka (Cat) belongs to a series of AV works (Po stopách krve, Spejbl & Hurvínek and 13. revír, 1995 - 1998) in which Mezihorák was transcoding "found footage" as film and TV broadcast. From the footage of a 24 hour broadcast by Czech Television Channel 1 were edited "frame by frame" according to the similarity of the individual images into a new context. Kočka is deconstruction of one sequence from the Czech detective story in the style of "film noir" completed by Martin Frič in 1946. The scene is transferred to another entity and video is provided with subtitles that do not correspond with what the characters are saying.
Zdeněk Mezihorák is one of the first graduates of the Video Multimedia Performance department of FaVU in Brno. He became interested in the interpretation of mass media sources such as television broadcasts. He used the rapid montage of several repeating video frames to deconstruct and sample the original dramatic structure, as a method how to dissolve the surface of the medium and to emphasize physical qualities and material damage. Together with Filip Cenek, he was one of the artists who used digital video editing systems in the 1990s as a creative tool (The Fast Video Machine, After Effects, later Image/Ine). He has been working as a computer game developer since 2000, working with Amanita Design, among others. He lives and works in Berlin.