Martin Blažíček
Live cinema since 1997

Martin Blažíček works with film and video. His films and performances revolve around perception, flicker effect, and emotional responses to projected light and images. From the 1990s to the 2000s, he frequently combined film with digital media, in recent years, he has developed number of audiovisual SW and HW instruments. He graduated from FAMU with a master’s degree in film editing and PhD for work on Live Cinema. He has performed and presented films internationally at numerous galleries, festivals and venues, including ZKM Karlsruhe, Diapason Gallery New York, High Zero Baltimore, MAK Vienna, Terrace Gallery London, City Art Gallery Leeds, Live Cinema Festival Rome, Encounters Bristol, Screen City Festival Stavanger, KVIFF, PAF Olomouc, Lunchmeat Prague and OFF Biennale Budapest. He was part of the film performance group Mikroloops (2007–10) and the live-coding group Kolektiv (2012–16). He participated in two performances by the group D’epog (2019–21), one of which he adapted into the medium-length film Series (2023). As a curator, he collaborated on the Roxy/NoD Prague (2007–2008) and the Školská 28 Gallery (2010–2012) multimedia program. As an independent curator he curated programs for the IDFF Jihlava, LFŠ Uherské Hradiště, Open City Festival London, Seoul Int. Media Festival, Schmalfilmtage Dresden, Lux London, and others. He is author of numerous studies on Czechoslovak underground films of the 1980s, video art, and experimental films, co-author of the book Mapping the Moving Image (NFA/Spector Books, 2023) and has contributed to the magazines as Iluminace, Senses of Cinema, Notebook, Kino Ikon, A2, and Art+Antiques.