Zdeněk Holý graduated from Palacký University in Olomouc in film and theatre studies. He began his career as a film critic and more recently editor-in-chief of the film magazine Cinepur. For four years he was director of the academic publishing house of AMU. He was the author of the original idea for the film Daniel’s World and screenwriter on the scientific documentary Whose Is My Child (2014) and the web series Laydies and Genitalmen (2013). In 2005 he wrote a long study about minimalist cinema, in particular the films Gerry (Gus van Sant, 2002), Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003) and Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003) Emptied Narration, Uncertainty of Film Movement available on the Cinepur magazine website. In 2016 he became the dean of FAMU.
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