Silvia Vyvijal Divéky “Productive Conflict in Creative Process”

Abstract

We often find ourselves at an impasse when working with audiovisual material. The whole post-production process seems a little daunting and time-consuming. If we decide to invest time in editing a video, we want to see it. Or… we could look at this matter from a different perspective. In my work, I use video to reflect on different things that happen in my life – sometimes it is a reflection on what I have encountered, sometimes it’s just testing the material I have gathered for a documentary. In all reflections I use the method of productive conflict which helps me to jumpstart the process and very often leads to places I would not have explored otherwise.

Author’s CV

Silvia Vyvijal Divéky is a PhD student at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. Aside from documentary-making, she explores narrative methods not only in video, but also in writing. Her documentary films Dying Blue and The Tower of Sherpa were at the beginning of her artistic research journey, where she looked for new ways of capturing culture. Currently, she is working on a documentary series about ultra-runners, where she explores how being part of the community affects her documentary skills and how distance vs. proximity to the subject matter brings different elements to the films. In the past year, she has been looking into the format of self-portrait in audiovisual work.