[artinfo] Zuzana Piussi: Disease of the Third Power

[Vladimir US]

Disease of the Third Power
a film by Zuzana Piussi
2011, 52'

A political documentary about black holes in the 
Slovak judiciary system and about the state of 
law in Slovakia. The film from the backstage of 
the Slovak judiciary system also stands as an 
essay about a very peculiar form of power that 
effaces itself in order to adopt a new name later 
- justice.

Zuzana Piussi was born 1971 in Bratislava. Since 
1992, Zuzana Piussi works as stage and costume 
designer for, amongst others, the Stoka theater 
in Bratislava. In 1999 she wrote her own theatre 
show titled Modna prehliadka, enlisting the 
cooperation of L. Burgr and I. Hrubanicova. In 
2000 she founded the Free Association for 
contemporary opera, together with L. Burgr. She 
wrote the libretti for the operas John King 
(2001) and Tete-a-tete (2002) and was also 
responsible for costumes and stage design. Since 
2002 she has been studying at the Academy of 
Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava (VSMU), 
Faculty of Film and Television. Her first 
documentary film V˜met was awarded the Main Prize 
at the IFF Beirut in 2003.

This screening is part 
of <http://chiosc.oberliht.com/2015/05/27/cinematograful-politic>Democracy 
Challenging Post-Socialist World series of 
screenings organized in partnership with Czech 
Cultural Center in Bucharest in the frame of 
Chisinau Civic Center - open air cinema 
project: <https://chisineu.wordpress.com/proiecte/centrul-civic-cinema>https://chisineu.wordpress.com/proiecte/centrul-civic-cinema and 
is supported by the European Cultural Foundation 
in the frame of the Connected Action for the 
Commonsprogram.