For the wider public, the results of the entire research project will be made available via a twenty-minute animated film, directed by Michaela Režová with scholarly assistance from Milena Bartlová. The film will be projected as part of the exhibition UMPRUM 1885–1990, with a historical perspective that will be updated towards the present, after which it will be accessible online.
The film outlines the changes in the possibilities and methods of instruction at UMPRUM across the years from 1885 to 2000 and draws upon the research findings of the other scholarly teams. Our chosen form is that of an interactive animated document, since Michaela Režová has exceptional experience with this form and already achieved successful results. This relatively little-known film method presents a highly suitable medium for conveying information that is, on one side, largely factual and didactic and as such requires its scholarly basis, yet on the other involves unique human stories: the essential content of the film will be three or four individual biographic trajectories of actual people who studied at UMPRUM in its first years, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, during the First Republic, under state socialism, and at the start of the 21st century. Rendering the film unique is its combination of expert erudition and the emotional force of what it presents.
Milena Bartlová
Milena Bartlová, Michaela Režová
Cyril Říha, Pavla Pauknerová
