FAREWELL TO ARMS (Czechoslovakia, 1991/2009)

The young Czech curator/photographer Ales Vasicek collaborated with Vojta Dukát, the legendary photographer/filmmaker of Moravian descent, who recorded the departure of the Russian troops on video in 1991. Vasicek supplemented Dukát’s images with documents and photographs that provide background to the main location, the camp/town of Milovice. But he also shows the pictures he had taken in 2008, unaware of Dukat’s work there, while working as a walk-on for a film production shot there, dealing with the fall of Srebrenica.