Blocks & festivals / Mezipatra 2010(11. 11. 2010 – 16. 11. 2010) 

With each edition of Mezipatra we want to contribute to deconstructing the mindlessly accepted truths, to thinking about the relationship between the private and the public and to connecting the minority and mainstream. We named this year’s topic, with slight irony, High Art and we examine it through films and a accompanying programme. This gives us the opportunity to talk about our favourite topics: art and the construction of values.

Never ending discussions as to whether the creator’s sexuality contributes in any way to the resulting work of art, on whether works about minorities are activist and whether activist works are real art, concern also film and the very essence of queer film festivals.

The topic of High Art provokes questions concerning the way an art work can earn the right to be placed amongst “high“ (consequently appreciated, exhibited, promoted and funded) genres and opens the way for curatorial games and questioning the borders of definitions that categorize art. Therefore in the programme we also present films that mix the seemingly inconsistent and overturn the values of “high“ and “low“, to discover and repeatedly invent new art.