Traveling film series about Vaclav Havel available to universities this Fall

[Ksenya Gurshtein]

Dear SEELANGSers,

I wanted to alert you to a wonderful film series that is being offered at
no cost to universities this Fall by the Czech embassy in Washington.
It is titled
*The Play's the Thing: Václav Havel, Art and Politics* and was curated by
Margaret Parsons, head of the film program at the National Gallery of Art
in Washington, DC, who put it together after doing research at the National
Film Archive in Prague.

The program is based on the places and people that Havel knew, from the
influential Theatre on the Balustrade, where his theatrical career began,
to his friendships with filmmakers of the Czech New Wave, and to his
political ascendancy in Prague. Many of the films have been translated into
English for the first time as a part of this project. All are presented on
Blu-ray. The Czech embassy has secured screening rights for the films
through December 2014. The only possible costs associated with bringing the
series to a campus would be the shipping of the Blu-rays.

For a full list of films included in the series, see below. If you're
interested in screening them, contact Mary Fetzko, public relations
specialist, via e-mail at czech_events at yahoo.com or call (202) 274-9105.
Mary can send detailed descriptions of the films upon request.

*Films included*:

1*. The Uninvited Guest* (*Nezvaný host*)
Vlastimil Venclík, 1969, Czech with subtitles, 22 minutes

2. *Every Young Man* (*Každý mladý muž*)
Pavel Juráček, 1966, Czech with subtitles, 83 minutes

3. *The Mist* (*Mlha*)
Radúz Činčera, 1966, Czech with subtitles, 28 minutes

4. *A Report on Party and Guests* (*O slavnosti a hostech*)
Jan Němec, 1968, Czech with subtitles, 71 minutes

5. *The Heart above the Castle* (*Srdce nad Hradem*)
Jan Němec, 2007, Czech with English subtitles, 48 minutes

6. *Joseph Kilian aka A Person to Be Supported* (*Postava k podpírání*)
Pavel Juráček, 1963, Czech with English subtitles, 38 minutes

7. *Who Is Václav Havel...*(*Kdo je Václav Havel...*)
 Helena Matiášová, 1977, Czech with English subtitles, 11 minutes

8. *And the Beggar's Opera Again* (*A znovu Žebrácká opera*)
Olga Sommerová, 1996, Czech with English subtitles, 60 minutes

9. *Leaving *(*Odcházení*)
Václav Havel, 2011, Czech with English subtitles, 94 minutes

Sincerely,
Ksenya Gurshtein
-- 
Ksenya Gurshtein
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
Department of Photographs
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Phone: (202) 789-3054 (work); (347) 567-8425 (home)
Fax: (202) 789-4620
ksenya at gmail.com

"Art is what makes life more interesting than art."
--- Robert Filliou

"What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for
life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end."
--- Michel Foucault

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