15 x 15 x 5 (Minisalon 1984)

This film essay about the limits of freedom takes us on an adventurous journey into the past, when art defied restrictions and became a means of resistance. At the heart of the story is the illegal Minisalon experiment, organized in the "Orwellian" year of 1984 by artist and dissident Joska Skalník. He sent square boxes across the Czechoslovak art scene with a call for free artistic expression. This resulted in a collection of 244 unique works of art by important 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 thrived 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 create a fascinating mosaic of the past that speaks to our present and near future.