Opening Ceremony (Club of Opportunities, Ep. 8)

Opening Ceremony (Club of Opportunities, Ep. 8) Author: Jakub Jansa 4K, 10 min, 2022 (sound in English; English and Czech subtitles) Premiere: Flower Union, National Gallery Prague / Council of the European Union, Brussels Commissioned by National Gallery Prague The celerist is invited to speak at the Flower Union’s gala event as the hot vegetable of the season. The supernatural figure of the Seer, no longer able to predict the future, takes over the direction of the second part of the program, animating decorative flowers through a festive eco-sexual ritual. The Seer shows the plants that by putting pistils and calyces together, they can reach out to the public and change the course of things. Hopefully her ability to see into the future will return. Concept and direction: Jakub Jansa Script: Jakub Jansa, Dominik Dabrowski, Alice Krajčírová DOP: Kryštof Hlůže DOP assistant: Tomáš Merta Music: Oliver Torr Voiceover: Jan Vondráček Performance: Jan Kostiha, Ester Geislerová, Kamil Nábělek, Trin Alt Vajd, Markéta VuTru, Dexton Kotora, Katsuhiro Iwashita, Veronika Čechmánková, Jakub Samek, Zai Xu, Linda Vondrová, Rokhaya Gueye, Anita Lubadika, Adéla Sobotková, Mary Nguyen, Linh Nguyen, Agáta Hrnčířová Editing: Sebastian Kučkovský Costumes: Overall Office (Karolína Juříková, Kristýna Nováková) Photographer: Iryna Drahun CGI: Matěj Martinec Producer: Agáta Hrnčířová Make-up: Majda Vaverková Masks: Eliška Pitráková Sound designer: Nicolas Atcheson Grading: Kryštof Melka Lights: Tomáš Prajsler Focus puller: Mihir Khulkarmi Costume assistant: Františka Králíková Cake: Růst Cakes Special thanks: National Gallery, Prague, UMPRUM, Plevel (Beáta Melková), DJ Bingo, Vít Svoboda, Jaroslav Gazda