Publication: Kotyk, Petr and Ludvík, Bedřich. Jan Lopatka: Zaostření pozornosti, 2016. Film

http://courage.btk.mta.hu/courage/individual/n37028

Jan Lopatka (1940–1993) was a Czech literary critic and historian, and signatory of Charter 77. To mark a symposium about his life and work, which was organised by the literary magazine Revolver Revue in June 2016 in Prague, a 17-minutes long time-lapse documentary called “Jan Lopatka: Zaostření pozornosti” (“Jan Lopatka: Focusing attention”), devoted to this important personality of Czech literary history, was created by Petr Kotyk and Bedřich Ludvík. In this film, edited by Bedřich Ludvík, recordings with Jan Lopatka made by Petr Kotyk in the 1990s as part of the Authentic project for the “Videotéka a fonotéka” (video and audio library) of the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature (LA PNP) were used. The film also covers Lopatka’s memories of the Czechoslovak samizdat magazine “Kritický sborník” (Critical Proceedings), which Lopatka edited during the second half of the 1980s, and his reflections on the meaning of the samizdat volumes.

Location

Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
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Starting year of event

2016

Main actors

Kotyk, Petr

Author(s) of this page

Kůželová, Michaela

Event of

Video and Audio Library of the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature

References

Badatelna.eu. 2018. "Literární archiv Památníku národního písemnictví - Videotéka a fonotéka literárního archivu PNP." Accessed September 7. http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/3393/zakladni-informace/.

Revolver Revue - Bubínek Revolveru. 2017. "Jan Lopatka (1940–1993) / esej Paula Wilsona + film Zaostření pozornosti." Last modified June 5. http://www.bubinekrevolveru.cz/jan-lopatka-1940-1993-esej-paula-wilsona-film-zaostreni-pozornosti.

Kotyk, Petr. 2011. "Projekt Authentic: časosběrná natáčení Literárního archivu PNP v letech 1990-2009 jako literárněhistorický pramen." PhDr. diss. (rigorózní práce), Fakulty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.

Kotyk, Petr, interview by Kůželová, Michaela, May 24, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

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