Petr Skala - A Hidden Experimenter DVD

The works of Petr Skala defy everything that had happened in Czechoslovak cinematography from the 1960s to the 1980s. In his experiments, Sklala drifted far from the mainstream into the realm of painting-oriented, abstract film. He made films using direct, manual intervention in film material and in many cases made do without a camera. For Skala, each and every frame is a unique work of art. In the course of 20 years, he created over 80 films and countless variations of them in which he tried to reveal the fundamental dimensions of human existence and discuss questions of birth and death as well as the mankind’s relationship to the external world and its position in the cosmos. Original footage and arrangements used in making this exclusive DVD are from the collection of the National Film Archive in Prague.