In 2021, she made her first short movie Zagovory, which was chosen as one of the finalists' works for the Other Visions 2021 competition by the Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art (PAF). In 2023, she has been selected to participate in FIDCampus; an international residency program for young filmmakers organized by Festival International de Cinéma (FID) Marseille.
Recently, her main interests oscillate around topics connected to mythology, transformation, memory, neurology, feminism, anthropomorphism, identity, transgression, landscape as mediators of meanings, and aesthetics based on fairy tales or surrealistic environments.
CV
* 6. 4. 2001, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Education:
2020 – 2023 BcA. at FAMU – Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Center for Audiovisual Studies (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic
2022 VIA Film & Transmedia – The New Screens Experience, Aarhus, Denmark (Exchange program)
2016 – 2020 High School of Arts, Department of applied photography and media, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Exhibitions:
Group exhibitions:
2023 FAMUFEST Exhibition, Berlinskej model, Prague
2023 Open Studio CAS, GAMU, Prague
2022 Diagnostika vol. 1, Industra, Brno
2022 Guide to Depuffing Skin, GAMU, Prague
2021 Final Fantasy, GAMU, Prague 2021 FAMUFEST Exhibition, palác U Stýblů, Prague
2021 GIFT SHOP – a fundraiser for Ciocia Czesia
2019 Art’s Birthday, Bludný kámen, Opava
2019 Exhibition of semestral artworks, former Galex shop, Ostrava
Solo exhibitions:
2018 Syndrome of Awakening, gallery Nibiru, Ostrava
Festivals & Screenings:
2023 FIDMarseille – Festival international de Cinéma Marseille, 4. – 9. 7, Mucem, Marseille, France
2023 15th Prague Quadrennial, 8. – 18. 7, DISK Theatre, Prague
2023 Mladá kamera Uničov, 15. – 18. 3, Uničov
2022 SPA: Performance bus Prague → Opava and back, 12. – 13. 11., Studio Alta, Bludný kámen and AVA kolektiv
2022 FAMU CAS Screening in Ponrepo, 3. 10., Prague
2022 Pragovka Gallery open-air cinema, 28. 7., Prague
2022 Luhovaný Vincent, 23. – 26. 6., Luhačovice
2022 FAMUFEST 38, 30. 3. – 3. 4., Kino pilotů, Prague
2022 Other Visions of PAF Screening, 21. 3., Ponrepo, Prague
2021 PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art - Other Visions competition, 13. – 19. 12, Olomouc
2021 25th Jihlava IDFF – FAMU presents section, 26 – 31. 10, Jihlava
Residencies & Other Events
2023 FIDCampus, FIDMarseille – Festival international de Cinéma Marseille, Marseille, France
2023 Masterclass with Bertrand Mandico, 4. 4., French Institute in Prague, Kino 35, Prague, Czech Republic (as host)
Awards:
2021 Finalist of Other Visions competition at PAF Olomouc festival, curator: Keiko Sei
2021 FAMUFEST 37 - Exhibition, Honorable mention
Articles:
2023 Swarm Mag - The Roots of Taste: Dryads and Enchantments, editor: Františka Blažková
Contact:
+420 778 092 282
eliska.lubojatzka@seznam.cz
instagram: eliska.lubojatzka
WORKS
2019 — 2023
Lilith and a Body
2023
A short film, 12 min.
Lilith and a Body is a short feature film based on the story of Lilith, a taboo figure from mythology and, according to biblical interpretation, the first woman of Eden. The film works with the motifs of trauma, ambivalence and finding inner strength, taking the original myth and presenting its alternative continuation surrounded by a surreal landscape. After escaping from the Garden of Eden, Lilith finds herself on a new, unknown planet, where she gradually meets several mysterious characters. These encounters gradually reveal Lilith's traumatic experience and help her find the strength to overcome it. However, Lilith’s journey soon turns out to be incredibly convoluted. Combining myth and surreal sceneries, the film explores the boundaries between reality, dreams and mythological stories, as well as raises questions about women's characters and representation in mythology.
Dryaarisi
2022 – 2023
A short film, 4.55 min
A short video poem about a dryad recovering reality while entering a dream landscape. Dryaarisi explores the topics of detachment, unknown territories, and freshly discovered perceptions, depicted within a dream landscape, where a pilgriming dryad unfolds reminiscences of reality, which often feels so close yet still somehow distant. The merge of surreal depictions accompanied by a poetic voiceover creates a scenery establishing its own time and space expanding with the pace with which the dryad uncovers it.
Installation at Berlinskej model, FAMUFEST Exhibition 19. – 22.4 2023
Zagovory
2021
A short film, 6 min.
In Eastern Slavic mythology, zagovory is a form of verbal folk magic. Users of zagovory can enchant objects or people. This short movie works with the aesthetics of Slavic folklore, body, and natural scenery and transforms their mysterious beauty into comprehensive visuals, supplemented by a voiceover, reading some of the authentic zagovory. The picture is focused on the process of purification, healing, ritual, the use of the elements of Slavic folklore, and the connection of body and nature. The central visual motifs use a human body surrounded by the natural environment, various objects, elements, and rituals of the process of purification.
Recycle Process
2021
Video installation, 16mm film
Part of the Final Fantasy exhibition at GAMU, Prague 24.6.-2.7.2021
Recycle Process re-uses the film material from FAMU editing rooms. By recycling the waste clippings of 16mm film, new original work is created in the form of a short experimental moving image composed of many different projects by many different FAMU students, which experiments with the possibilities of the medium of 16mm film. Aside from the clippings, the film also includes various organic materials, like pieces of plants or human blood. The surface has been adjusted with other techniques such as engraving, painting, or drawing. Recycle Process offers unlimited possibilities of interpretation and provides the viewer with the opportunity to create their own micro-narratives.
Reducing stimuli
2021
Video installation
Part of: - Diagnostika vol.1, Industra, Brno, 2022
- FAMUFEST 37 Exhibition at Palác U Stýblů, Prague, 2021 - GIFTSHOP - a fundraiser for Cioczia Czesia, GAMU, Prague, 2021
An audiovisual output focusing on the simulation of the state of an individual who decides to reduce the stimuli received from everyday life. Gradually deforming shots of the details of white fabric representing formability and subtlety accompanied by grading electronically generated sounds are supposed to evoke in the viewer the feeling that the world they perceive and the stimuli they receive from it are slowly losing their shape.
