HOT DOCS!
Contemporary Czech documentary films dominate over feature films in significance, impact and quality, and it might be said that they also tell more about contemporary Czech society. The Czech Filmz project is not ignorant of this fact. Therefore it will present some of the finest examples of this growing tendency during the summer semester of 2007. We chose to present different faces of Czech documentary film to indicate its social scope as well as formal inventiveness.
The project starts with an internationally comprehensible testimony of how beauty industry and media shape our ideas of beauty and manipulate them (The Beauty Exchange by Erika Hníková); follows by an insightful look into the events around the meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Prague in 2000 (Dust Games by Martin Mareček), a social experiment of Miroslav Janek who gave the camera to children from a children´s home (Kha-chee-pae), and a personal film about the feelings of the Bosnian director Ivana Milosevič who visits her native country ten years after the end of the war there (Never Been Better). Found-footage method is represented by Jan Šikl´s Daddy and Lili Marlene and Low-Level Flight, personal stories contrasted with the country´s official history. The project will close with a provocative and infamous Czech Dream, a film that tells about Czech society more than we would probably like to. Enjoy the various faces of Czech documentary film – now you have the unique opportunity!
Thursday | 8.3. 2007 | 20:00
The Beauty Exchange | Ženy pro měny | 2004
Czech Republic ׀ 2004 ׀77 minutes ׀ screenplay and director: Erika Hníková ׀ cinematography: Marek Janda ׀ editing: Jakub Hejna ׀
Erika Hníková´s feature-length debut revealing the phenomenon of contemporary media-made ideals of feminine beauty. On the example of four women – a beginning model, an ageing woman fighting her overweight, a student spending thousands on cosmetics and worker undergoing a mammoplasty – Hníková comments on possible approaches to one´s own body.
Thursday | 22.3. 2007 | 20:00 |
Dust Games | Hry prachu | 2001
Czech Republic | 2001 | 100 minutes | director: Martin Mareček | cinematography: Jiří Málek, Vít Janeček, Vít Klusák, Martin Řezníček | editing: Petr Mrkous |
A breakthrough documentary, an encyclopedia of Czech activist issues, and a clever film in one! With a limited number of staff Martin Mareček started to monitor the Annual Meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, held in Prague in 2000 from various angles and perspectives. The result was awarded the first prize at the 2001 IDFF Jihlava and acknowledged at other festivals.
Thursday | 12.4. 2007| 20:00
Kha-chee-pe | Chačipe | 2005
Czech Republic ׀ 2005 ׀57 minutes ׀ screenplay, cinematography, director: Miroslav Janek ׀ editing: Tonička Janková ׀ music: Jaroslav Kořán ׀
A social documentary that will not make you feel guilty. With a camera in their hands children from children´s homes invite the spectator into their bleak reality as well as rich imagination. A unique, playful and unsentimental documentary by the editor of Godfrey Reggio´s Powaqqatsi and Anima Mundi.
Thursday | 26.4. 2007 | 20:00
Never been better | Nikdy nebylo líp | 2006
Czech Republic ׀ 2006 ׀ 65 minutes ׀ screenplay, director: Ivana Miloševič ׀ cinematography: Gašper Šnuder ׀ editing: Evženie Brabcová ׀
„In order to understand your country, you have to set out on a path of song.“ Born in Sarajevo, now a czech citizen, Ivana Miloševič went to Bosnia and Herzegovina a decade after the end of the war to film a polyphonic portrait of this historically, socially, and politically divided country.
Thursday | 17.5. 2007 | 20:00 |
Daddy and Lili Marlene, A Low-level Flight | Tatíček a Lili Marlén, Nízký let | 2005, 2006
Czech Republic | 2005, 2006 | 2 x 52 minutes | screenplay, director: Jan Šikl |sound editor: Daniel Němec | editing: Jan Daňhel, Šimon Špidla |
Jan Šikl´s Private Century cycle is a unique set of documentaries contrasting the official Czech history of 20th century with personal histories of the country´s inhabitants. The use of amateur family footage gives the cycle unprecedented authenticity and intimate feeling. Czech Filmz will present two parts of the cycle – Daddy and Lili Marlene and A Low-level Flight, telling stories of two daughters – of a German farmer living in Sudetenland before WWII and of a Russian emigree to Czechoslovakia.
Thursday | 31.5. 2007 | 20:00
Czech Dream | Český sen | 2004
Czech Republic ׀ 2004 ׀87 minutes ׀ directors: Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda ׀ cinematography: Vít Klusák ׀ editing: Zdeněk Marek ׀
They built a fake hypermarket and fooled thousands of people – was it mere provocation, bad joke or an act of social activism? Two FAMU students became top managers to show the public how PR agencies work and how Czech shopping habits changed. Come and watch the most controversial Czech documentary shot after 1989.
The project starts with an internationally comprehensible testimony of how beauty industry and media shape our ideas of beauty and manipulate them (The Beauty Exchange by Erika Hníková); follows by an insightful look into the events around the meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Prague in 2000 (Dust Games by Martin Mareček), a social experiment of Miroslav Janek who gave the camera to children from a children´s home (Kha-chee-pae), and a personal film about the feelings of the Bosnian director Ivana Milosevič who visits her native country ten years after the end of the war there (Never Been Better). Found-footage method is represented by Jan Šikl´s Daddy and Lili Marlene and Low-Level Flight, personal stories contrasted with the country´s official history. The project will close with a provocative and infamous Czech Dream, a film that tells about Czech society more than we would probably like to. Enjoy the various faces of Czech documentary film – now you have the unique opportunity!
Thursday | 8.3. 2007 | 20:00
The Beauty Exchange | Ženy pro měny | 2004
Czech Republic ׀ 2004 ׀77 minutes ׀ screenplay and director: Erika Hníková ׀ cinematography: Marek Janda ׀ editing: Jakub Hejna ׀
Erika Hníková´s feature-length debut revealing the phenomenon of contemporary media-made ideals of feminine beauty. On the example of four women – a beginning model, an ageing woman fighting her overweight, a student spending thousands on cosmetics and worker undergoing a mammoplasty – Hníková comments on possible approaches to one´s own body.
Thursday | 22.3. 2007 | 20:00 |
Dust Games | Hry prachu | 2001
Czech Republic | 2001 | 100 minutes | director: Martin Mareček | cinematography: Jiří Málek, Vít Janeček, Vít Klusák, Martin Řezníček | editing: Petr Mrkous |
A breakthrough documentary, an encyclopedia of Czech activist issues, and a clever film in one! With a limited number of staff Martin Mareček started to monitor the Annual Meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, held in Prague in 2000 from various angles and perspectives. The result was awarded the first prize at the 2001 IDFF Jihlava and acknowledged at other festivals.
Thursday | 12.4. 2007| 20:00
Kha-chee-pe | Chačipe | 2005
Czech Republic ׀ 2005 ׀57 minutes ׀ screenplay, cinematography, director: Miroslav Janek ׀ editing: Tonička Janková ׀ music: Jaroslav Kořán ׀
A social documentary that will not make you feel guilty. With a camera in their hands children from children´s homes invite the spectator into their bleak reality as well as rich imagination. A unique, playful and unsentimental documentary by the editor of Godfrey Reggio´s Powaqqatsi and Anima Mundi.
Thursday | 26.4. 2007 | 20:00
Never been better | Nikdy nebylo líp | 2006
Czech Republic ׀ 2006 ׀ 65 minutes ׀ screenplay, director: Ivana Miloševič ׀ cinematography: Gašper Šnuder ׀ editing: Evženie Brabcová ׀
„In order to understand your country, you have to set out on a path of song.“ Born in Sarajevo, now a czech citizen, Ivana Miloševič went to Bosnia and Herzegovina a decade after the end of the war to film a polyphonic portrait of this historically, socially, and politically divided country.
Thursday | 17.5. 2007 | 20:00 |
Daddy and Lili Marlene, A Low-level Flight | Tatíček a Lili Marlén, Nízký let | 2005, 2006
Czech Republic | 2005, 2006 | 2 x 52 minutes | screenplay, director: Jan Šikl |sound editor: Daniel Němec | editing: Jan Daňhel, Šimon Špidla |
Jan Šikl´s Private Century cycle is a unique set of documentaries contrasting the official Czech history of 20th century with personal histories of the country´s inhabitants. The use of amateur family footage gives the cycle unprecedented authenticity and intimate feeling. Czech Filmz will present two parts of the cycle – Daddy and Lili Marlene and A Low-level Flight, telling stories of two daughters – of a German farmer living in Sudetenland before WWII and of a Russian emigree to Czechoslovakia.
Thursday | 31.5. 2007 | 20:00
Czech Dream | Český sen | 2004
Czech Republic ׀ 2004 ׀87 minutes ׀ directors: Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda ׀ cinematography: Vít Klusák ׀ editing: Zdeněk Marek ׀
They built a fake hypermarket and fooled thousands of people – was it mere provocation, bad joke or an act of social activism? Two FAMU students became top managers to show the public how PR agencies work and how Czech shopping habits changed. Come and watch the most controversial Czech documentary shot after 1989.
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