Letters to Max
Film by Eric Baudelaire
+ discussion with the artist moderated by curator Vít Havránek and IRWIN group
Ponrepo Cinema, Bartolomejska 11, Prague 1
Wednesday 14 October, 5 pm

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Letters to Max
(FR, 2014, 103 min, HD)

Abkhazia is something of a paradox: a country that exists, in the physical sense of the word (a territory with borders, a government, a flag,
a language), yet it has no legal existence because for almost twenty years it was not recognized by any other nation state. And so Abkhazia exists without existing, caught in a liminal space, a space in between realities.

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Eric Baudelaire (lives in Paris) is a visual artist and filmmaker. His research-based film practice also unfolds as installations incorporating photography, printmaking, performance, publications and screenings. His films Letters to Max (2014), The Ugly One (2013) and The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images (2011) were shown at the FIDMarseille, Locarno, Toronto, New York and Rotterdam film festivals. Recent solo exhibitions were held at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Berkeley Art Museum, Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, Bétonsalon in Paris, the Bergen Kunsthall, the Beirut Art Center, Gasworks in London, La Synagogue de Delme in France and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. He has participated in Sharjah Biennial 12, Seoul Mediacity Biennial, the Yokohama Triennial, the Taipei Biennial, Berlin Documentary Forum 2, La Triennale in Paris and the Baltic Triennial. His films and installations are in the collections of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Film screenings are organized in association with LUX, London. Eric Baudelaire's work is presented in the exhibitionMoving Image Department – 3rd Chapter: The Owl's Legacy and Its Discontents in the National Gallery in Prague. His films have been shown in the Czech Republic for the first time at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.

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PARALLEL FORMATS | program of international events
Are in cooperation with cultural, educational and art institutions wants to develop a program of international events that are linked to current artistic projects. Are wants to reflect the area of so- called auxiliary disciplines for
main exhibition program as a more autonomous zone. Are believes that this format will contribute to strengthening the coherence and continuity of international projects. Parallel Formats in its first phase
is based on the Moving Image Department series of exhibitions
in the National Gallery in Prague. 

le peuple qui manque / a people is missing
For a differential government of times
live writing
Sunday 11 October, 5 – 10 pm, Ponrepo Cinema

Films by Eric Baudelaire
The Makes, The Anabasis ..., Letters to Max
Tuesday and Wednesday 13 and 14 October, 5 pm, Ponrepo Cinema
Thursday 15 October, 6 pm, Cultural space PRAHA

Lucy Raven
Tales of Love and Fear
site-specific cinema
Tuesday 17 November, 8 and 9 pm, Studio hrdinů

lsla Leaver-Yap and James Richards
talk
Thursday 10 December, 6 pm, UMPRUM in Prague