Scene from Urban Disobedience Toolkit showing a performer covered in clay raising their hand during a public demonstration.
Still from Urban Disobedience Toolkit, a performance-based film exploring acts of resistance and collective action in urban spaces.
 

Urban Disobedience Toolkit

by Vladimír Turner
Artists and activists reclaim a gentrified Prague with creative interventions and anarchist monkey-wrenching to show how a more egalitarian city is possible.
2025  ·  1h28m  ·  Czechia
English subs
About the Film

Urban Disobedience Toolkit explores the evolving dynamics of public space in big cities, showing how art can inspire people to reclaim and reshape their urban environments. Through artistic interventions and performative lectures, the film illustrates ways to “take back the city.” These elements are seamlessly interwoven under the direction of artist and filmmaker Vladimír Turner, who has spent nearly two decades dedicated to art in public space. The title, Urban Disobedience Toolkit, highlights the avant-garde potential of art — not as mere decoration, but as a radical intervention and a driving force against technocratic perceptions of the world.

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About the Director

Vladimír Turner

Portrait of filmmaker Vladimir Turner, director of Urban Disobedience Toolkit.
Filmmaker Vladimir Turner, director of Urban Disobedience Toolkit (2025).

Vladimír Turner (1986) graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in audiovisual studies, then he studied at the Studio of Intermedia Confrontation at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He has been to study stays in Buenos Aires, Valencia, Brisbane, Toulouse, Rotterdam and Australia. In his works, he oscillates between documentary film, art in public space and activism. He does not perceive these fields as divided, trying to combine them within a whole he labels as active civic life. His works from around the world can be seen in the streets, on film screens and in galleries.

 

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