Jiří Blažíček

"And what was Russia like at that time [in the 1970s], what was life like there...?" - "For me it was horrible. One thing is what they wanted to show you - a big house, Lomonosov University... and there were several of those houses. But we took a taxi, it cost a few crowns in those days, and we drove ourselves. And when possible, on that day, after the official tour program. Nobody was watching where we were going, we were a tour. So, we saw the liquor vending machines, it was unbelievable, gypsies who had American cars with trailers, this was near Yerevan - we're driving and suddenly we see a camp full of Russian gypsies with cool cars and they were telling us: 'Come!' So we went, they invited us for shashlik. They took it out on the road and cooked it... So, we experienced things like that."

"Because I used to show it to kids in the Sokol gym when I was still going to the gym with my dad. So, I thought if the boys brought us a developed film, we could project it on the wall and use the camera to capture and broadcast it. That was my idea. They brought in a projector, and I painted posters that said: WE ARE CONNECTING. Everything was projected on the wall and the TV broadcast it. They brought films, and they showed what was going on in the streets, what people filmed where... They used to go to Jindřišská Street to develop the films. It was projected on the wall and through a normal camera it was broadcasted."