Ludwig Poos Schwabe (2007, 36MB, 1:20 min)

1st Ping-Pong Lesson With Lucha Lib (2008, 31.2MB, 4:18 min)

Even 18 years after the wall came down there’s still a quite palpable
residue of the great absurdist tradition that flourished under Stalinism in work
being made in the former Eastern bloc.
(Of course it goes back further, to Švejk
& to a certain Prague insurance clerk)
Then, the deliberate crudeness, strangeness and in-your-faceness concealed
the most serious of purposes.
Of course there’s still plenty to kick against everywhere,
but one can’t help wondering whether in work like this, Cheshire-cat-smile like,
the attitude persists but a question lies over any substance.
Of course there’s no reason to demand high seriousness everywhere & both these
pieces are well made and amusing, though of the two I much prefer Ludwig,
Lucha Lib being marred by a gratuitous and infantile sexism.
I sound harsher than I mean to be. There is a lot to like in both pieces
and I’ll definitely be following future work from Pash with interest.