Abstrakt
This article accompanies and contextualizes an audiovisual essay on Czech TV miniseries Vodník (The Water Demon, Viktor Tauš, 2019). The aim is to address the place of local TV series (albeit with quality TV ambitions) within production and reception fields which lean towards the global center. The question that arose was: how to make a peripheral TV series accessible to the global center without using colonizing or orientalizing rhetoric? In other words, how to describe a TV production created on the margins of the global audiovisual industry without tailoring it to the expectations of the Western audience and reducing its local specificity to an abstract concept or a mere gimmick, to just another example, another illustration, another piece of data?
This blog entry is part of the videographic project TV Dictionary initiated by Ariel Avissar.