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Nico Carpentier
Extraordinary Professor at Charles University in Prague
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“Conceptualizations of Change” selected for PAF festival
Published: 12 December 2021
The film “Conceptualization of Change” has been selected for the Other Visions CZ competition, which is part of PAF Olomouc 2021, the 20th Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art. PAF Olomouc 2021 was originally scheduled for 2 to 5 December 2021, but has been rescheduled to 13 to 19 December because of the pandemic. It will now be an online event.
“Conceptualizations of Change” is a 12-minute film that provides a theoretical reflection on the signifier “change”, and its five dimensions: Normativity, Scale and Intensity, Focus, Control and Time.
Filmed in Prague, with the integration of archive material that is mostly related to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the essay unpacks the significatory complexity of change, mapping the diversity of meanings that have been allocated to this notion.
The film’s five chapters organize a dialogue between fast-paced and still poetic imaginaries and voice-overs, starting with the normativity of change, and its utopian and dystopian meanings. The Scale and Intensity chapter reflects on the sometimes minute and sometimes all-encompassing nature of change, combined with its hegemonic and counter-hegemonic roles. The Focus chapter deals with the autonomy and dependency of change, while the Control chapter focuses on how change can be controlled and controlling. Finally, the Time chapter brings in differences between process and outcome, and patterns and events.
Analytically and methodologically, the film uses a post-structuralist paradigm to assist theory formation, grounded in, and combined with, an analysis of the content produced for the Mediating Change Colloquium, that took place in Prague on 20 and 21 November 2020. To render this source of inspiration and analysis visible, the film starts with a one-minute preamble, including a selection of voices from this Colloquium, in order to then shift to a more general theoretical discussion on change, with its five dimensions.
The film "Conceptualization of Change", authored by Kristýna Kopřivová, Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier is a part of the PAF Other Vision competition.
PAF Olomouc 2021 was originally scheduled for 2 to 5 December 2021, but has been rescheduled to 13 to 19 December because of the pandemic. It will now be an online event.
You'll find more information about the screening here: https://2021.pifpaf.cz/en/events/paf-olomouc/programme/jine-vize-cz-2021-vyber-keiko-sei
Read more about PAF Olomouc 2021: https://2021.pifpaf.cz/en/events/paf-olomouc
