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Looking back at this spring, we organised our first offline event, half party, half short-film screening. We have long been thinking about a format switch; to step outside the www and materialise. Cue Honey Pot by SWARM MAG. Several talented and attention-worthy young moving-image creators graciously lent us their works for the screening part of the evening, and we want to give them their flowers via this article.

In exploring the works of the greats, Martin Humpolák’s recent fashion collection reflects on romanticist themes from a contemporary perspective. Read today’s feature to learn how fashion can help you express something deeper about you, and why timeless ideas can never die.

Czech filmmaker and audiovisual artist Eliška Lubojatzká introduces two video poems: Dryaarisi and Zagovory. One after another, they lure us to into a semi-tangible, semi-transient landscapes that are explored and experienced by a dryad, and into a spell-casting phenomenon laden with Slavic folklore and verbal folk magic.

The aging body does not contain only one body. Rather, it is multiple bodies layered in time and decay, in memories and experiences. Figuring Age, a performance-installation by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm interweaves the stories and memories of elderly dancers with their everyday gestures, postures and dance movements, tracing how three women changed their lives and movement practices to survive the sociopolitical shifts of the 20th century.