This edition of the gallery’s summer cinema will present a film exploring the life and work of Fedir Tetyanych, a unique figure of the Ukrainian alternative art scene, whose practice, filled with fantastical constructions, performances, and futuristic visions, continues to fascinate with its boundless imagination. 

Film Thursday: Frypulia. Universe. Infinity (English subtitles, 89 min., 2011, dir. Svyatoslav Feofilaktov)

The film offers the most extensive audiovisual portrait of Fedir Tetyanych, also known by his pseudonym Frypulia, documenting the life, work, and personal philosophy of one of the most prominent figures of the Ukrainian alternative art scene. 

Composed primarily of unique, raw, and often bizarre archival video footage, the film transports viewers directly into the heart of the artist’s street performances, in which he challenged the society of his time while wearing costumes made of aluminium foil, wires, and discarded materials. Through these actions, he proclaimed ideas of absolute freedom, ecological upcycling, and the cosmic future of humanity within his vision of so-called “Biotechnospheres.”

The film by director Svyatoslav Feofilaktov deliberately avoids the conventions of a traditional biographical documentary. Instead, it takes the form of an audiovisual collage, in which fragments of images, sounds, and personal testimonies are woven together with a certain degree of creative chaos to reconstruct a mosaic of the artist’s life. The result is a raw and compelling testimony of a man who rejected the boundaries of a totalitarian regime as well as those of earthly reality, and who lived his life as one endless cosmic performance.

More information at www.gampa.cz a matterof.art.