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Anti-Climax


Anti-Climax is a live cinematic performance that aims to question what a film can be by premiering a film while it is being filmed.

The project was first performed on April 24th, 2024 at the Art Brut gallery in Prague and then later at the Museum of Art and Design in Benešov, Prague.

Each performance is complely improvised and contextually-dependent, reflective of the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.


Attendees of the event are instructed to sign their names on an attendance list prior to being seated in the gallery before a projection screen. The audience members were given the following instructions in both Czech and English:

"Welcome to an evening special, titled Anti-Climax by Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska. For the next 30-45 minutes, you will watch the one-time premiere of a film. Its characters, setting, plot, conflict, and development will be entirely created by you. There is a pen and paper under your chair—we ask you to write what you see in the film.

After the premiere, the stories will be collected for future screenings of the film alongside your interpretations.

We thank you for your subjective experience. Out of respect for the performers, we ask you to stay seated in the gallery so that you may collectively observe the same happening."

Once the instructions are given, this video and its accompanying audio fill the dark room. Outside, Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska--along with a 200m video cable--improvise using only the surroundings, and emotions discovered in the moment. All video effects are made in real-time with the on-camera Panasonic NV-M40 effects.
Meanwhile, audience members watch the live happening, noting down their subjective interpretations of the film. Towards the end of the film, Sandra enters the screening room and it is revealed that the film that they are watching is currently being filmed.

The film ends with a shot on the attendance list, though now added to it is a title that reads "Screen Play By..." in which it lists the attendees of the event.







Anti-Climax (2026)




Runtime: 27m25s
Format: VHS (PAL, SD)
Directed by: Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska
Music by: Honza Michálek
Originally performed & premiered May 31, 2026 at Museum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic.



Anti-Climax (2024)




Runtime: 27m26s
Format: VHS (PAL, SD)
Directed by: Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska
Music by: Nikodem Dybinsky
Originally performed & premiered April 24th, 2024 at the Art Brut Praha gallery, Czech Republic.
/ OBJECT:PARADISE IS THE INDUCTIVE SEDUCTION OF THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT / USE THE LANGUAGE THAT THE PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE CREATE IN THAT MOMENT / CONTEXT IS COTEXT / EVERYTHING IS PART OF THE PERFORMANCE / THE AUDIENCE IS THE POET / DETHRONE, THEN DEMOTE THE POET WHO CAME KNOWING / ELIMINATE THE EGO / DEPLATFORM THE STAGE / ORCHESTRATE THE CHAOS / LANGUAGE EXISTS ONLY IN A SINGLE MOMENT, THAT MOMENT /  DOWN WITH DENOTATION /  CELEBRATE THE PARTY THAT LANGUAGE IS / THE BEST WORDS IN THE BEST ORDER DOES NOT EXIST / LET ALL PLANS GO WRONG / DEMONETIZE LANGUAGE / EMBRACE MISCOMMUNICATION /  PROMOTE THE CONTEXT FOR THE SUBJECTIVE WORLD TO BE EXPERIENCED IN THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT