Art Talent Show

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Art Talent Show

2024

1h 42m

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Year after year, talent admission exams are held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague to determine who among the many applicants will earn a coveted spot at the 220-year-old institution. By extension, those chosen will set the tone in the fine arts world for years to come. Professors from each of the school’s subdisciplines interrogate the nervous young applicants, who in turn must not only present their work but also answer for their own artistic beliefs and practice. Equally exhausted by this process, the instructors are confronted by their own set of questions: how can and should artistic talent be assessed? What role do institutions such as the Academy play in the 21st century? What does the next generation of great artists look like?

Dmitry Samarov

Chicago Reader

03/11/2023

This funny, thoughtful, verité look at the yearly selection process in Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts manages to pack insights about education, societal shifts, and intellectual differences without getting bogged down in culture war cliches.

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

07/12/2022

Tomáš Bojar and Adéla Komrzý stake out a Czech art institute during entrance exam week, yielding a drolly insightful odyssey of oddity.

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Chris Salce

Film Threat

03/25/2024

6/10

The film creates a picture that is quite unique in one way or another.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

03/19/2024

Mildly engaging and fascinating, but somewhat dull and tedious.

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Sean Fallon

Film Inquiry

09/02/2023

Art Talent Show never gives narration or talking heads. We just watch the process unfold as silent, invisible witnesses, and it is an incredible process to watch.

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Scott Phillips

Forbes

04/14/2023

Bojar and Komrzy have been blessed with an eccentric cast of faculty members who are fascinating and often hilarious. Spending time with them is a pleasure. I hated to see this one end.

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Year after year, talent admission exams are held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague to determine who among the many applicants will earn a coveted spot at the 220-year-old institution. By extension, those chosen will set the tone in the fine arts world for years to come. Professors from each of the school’s subdisciplines interrogate the nervous young applicants, who in turn must not only present their work but also answer for their own artistic beliefs and practice. Equally exhausted by this process, the instructors are confronted by their own set of questions: how can and should artistic talent be assessed? What role do institutions such as the Academy play in the 21st century? What does the next generation of great artists look like?

Director: Tomas Bojar, Adéla Komrzý
Producer: Jakub Wagner, Martin Kohout
Screenwriter: Tomas Bojar, Adéla Komrzý
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: GPO Platform s.r.o.
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Czech
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 42m