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Marked by the Darkness
A documentary film about the studying methods for blind children in Levoča.
(Štefan Uher, CSR, 1959, 17 min., OV)

Discourse
An informal film about the daily life of a blind intellectual and university assistant, and his mishaps in the world of those who see. The film is framed by a tape recording – an intimate confession of a young man whose loss of eyesight heightened his other senses.
(Otakar Krivánek, CSR, 1963, 21 min., OV)

Silence
A film about a deaf man in his thirties, his possibilities, dreams and revolt. The film’s commentary – the protagonist’s inner voice – is in the form of children’s whispers. The camera, shooting him frontally, uses a certain ironic distance, announcing the aesthetics of the document’s progress.
(Martin Šulík, CSR, 1988, 13 min., OV)        

Water and Labour
In Slivka’s film, an old watermill acts as an experimental sound instrument, musical instrument, and sound generator.
(Martin Slivka, CSR, 1963, 9 min., OV)

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Today I wear Socks!
An ad for pedicure products with a catchy twist rhythm.
(Pavel Miškuv, CSR, 1963, 2 min., OV)

Operation BL
An anti-hipster ad for shaving products.
(Florián Andris, CSR, 1959, 2 min., OV)

The Pea Princess
An ad for modern lightweight duvets. 
(Pavel Miškuv, CSR, 1960, 3 min., OV)

Jeanette – the Newly-Wed
A silent-movie-style ad for vegetable ready-to-cook meals and instant soup mixes for every dexterous housewife.
(Dimitrij Plichta, CSR, 1963, 2 min., OV)

Horné Orešany Wine Bar
A tourists-targeted teaser for a new restaurant and wine bar in the Little Carpathians.
(Štefan Ondrkal, CSR, 1966, 6 min., OV)

The section will be introduced by its curator Petra Hanáková.

Petra Hanáková

Petra Hanáková is a graduate of the Fine Art Science programme at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University and the Film Science programme at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava. She works as an art theorist, film critic and historian, focusing mainly on Slovak cinematography. She is the author of the monograph Paľo Bielik and Slovak Film Culture from 2010. At present Petra is working in the Slovak National Gallery as a curator of the Collection of Other Media.