A cinematic essay on the limits of freedom takes us on an adventurous journey into the past, when art defied constraints and became a means of resistance. At the centre of the story is the illegal experiment Minisalon, organised by the artist and dissident Joska Skalník in the "Orwellian" year 1984. He sent square boxes across the Czechoslovak art scene with a call for free artistic play. This resulted in a collection of 244 unique artworks by prominent and often silenced artists (Margita Titlová-Ylovsky, Michael Rittstein, Mária Bartuszová, Stanislav Kolíbal, Kurt Gebauer, Tamara Kolenčíková, Čestmír Suška, Adriena Šimotová, Rudolf Sikora, Otis Laubert, the Válovy sisters, Vladimír Kokolia, Libor Fára, Květa Pacovská and many others), whose art and creativity lived on in the 1980s, despite the repressive regime. The stories of the participants in the Minisalon project and their works, contemporary archival materials and layered visual games make the film a fascinating mosaic of the past that also speaks to our present and near future.

Writer / Janek Růžička    Story / Lukáš Skalník , Joska Skalník    DoP / David Čálek , Mikuláš Hrdlička , Petr Houdek    Editor / Ema Adamove    Sound / Marek Musil    Music / David Acher    Set Designer / Pavel Kout

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