Today from 18:30-21.30 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Something Different (Věra Chytilová, 1963), with an introduction by Nimaye Nambiar.

Věra Chytilová’s singular start to the Czech New Wave and feature film debut, “Something Different” (1963), has the finesse of a fluid pirouette. Following a parallel montage structure, the film juxtaposes Eva, a gymnast approaching her thirties, with Vera, a frustrated housewife, who begins an extramarital affair. Chytilová’s concern here is as much about striking a pose as it is about balancing an act. While both women seek to stretch further the limits of the roles they must make a living from, Chytilová composes and revisits a series of extraordinary arabesques. Far from any digestible comparison, the film demands careful attention to the conditions and subversions that are unique (at times, intersecting) to Eva and Vera. Pointed toes, tucked heels, and bursts of motion parley with contradictions in the workplace and domestic alike. “Something Different” sustains a sense of play and unrestrained humour, scandalous and cause for censorship under Soviet rule at the time, which would reappear mischievously in Chytilová’s renown feature of the New Wave, “Daisies” (1966).