Accompanying program

Three exhibitions which, among others, are supplementing the thematic sphere of the projection are prepared for visitors. Three excellent bands will appear during the festival, and every night, one of the DJ's will spin a dance set.

The sonorous, airy guitars of Please the Trees, a band that cannot be overlooked not only in the Czech indie-rock scene will ring on Saturday 4. 5. Electronic dance music and jazz, a stylish range of dance rhythms reaching from hip-hop, through reggae and all the way to drum n’ bass, that’s the band Hi-fi, which plays on Sunday 5. 5. The music group Urban Trio, whose creative opus draws on the tradition of blues, the swing era and especially from modern jazz, will close the concerts.

Charles-Émile Reynaud — an exhi- bition named after the French inventor who in his time was ahead of the Lumiere brothers thanks to a device called the praxinoscope. The exhibition, organized for the 120th anniversary since the first presentation of Théâtre Optique (which was played at the Musée Grévin) presents preserved fragments of Reynaud’s works and devices, represented in the collections of the National Technical Museum in Prague. The exhibition titled Journey to the Beginning of Time will intimately remind us of the connection of the first attempts at animated film with comics. The exhibition presents examples from the dawn of this rapidly developing film medium, taking into account its connection with comic strips and showing that period films are in many cases more effective than contemporary ones. Czech and foreign illustrators will present their most recent work in the touring exhibition, The Best of Illustrations of 2012. Members of the Club of Children’s Book Illustrators will present their work together with illustrators nominated for the “Golden Ribbon” annual prize, which is awarded for the best books for children and the youth.