Jan Gogola jr. - director, script editor, lecturer at Tomas Bata University in Zlín - Faculty of Multimedia Communications – Audiovisual Arts. Formerly a commissioning editor for Czech TV, chief of programme Czech TV Brno and lecturer at FAMU. His reflexive and stylized films are often based on everyday life, which forms a source of philosophical exploration: diary, essay, happening, observation, performance, situational portrait.
Filmography, e.g., The Prison of History (co-director M. Hrudička, 2023), Eternal Jožo or How I Met a Star (2020), Excursions or History of the Present (2015), František of His Own Kind (2014), Mythmaking (2013), Breathless: I love My Boring Life (2009), Across the Border: Czech Velenice Infinity (2004), Situation of the Street or the Czech Sea in Eighteen Tidal Waves (2001), Nonstop (2000). Script editor (dramaturg), e.g., Art Talent Show (T. Bojar, A. Komrzý), Caught in the Net (B. Chalupová, V. Klusák), Czech Dream (F. Remunda, V. Klusák); 66 Seasons, Cooking History (P. Kerekes); Ester (V. Chytilová); Forman vs. Forman (J. Hejna, H. Třeštíková), How I Became a Partisan (V. Lacková), A Hole in the Head (R. Kirchhoff), Jan Palach (R. Sedláček), Kapr Code, Lost Holiday (L. Králová); Matchmaking Mayor (E. Hníková), A New Shift (J. Andrš), Off Sides (T. Bojar, R. Kohoutová), Other Worlds (M. Škop); Over the Hills (M. Mareček), Private Century (J. Šikl), The Sailor (L. Kašová), Steam on the River (R. Kirchhoff, F. Remunda), Town of Glory (D. Bogoljubov), René, Katka, Mallory (H. Třeštíková), Saving One Who Was Dead (V. Kadrnka), The White World According to Daliborek (V. Klusák), The World According to My Dad (M. Svobodová).
Masterclass: DOK Leipzig 2011, DOCsk Košice 2011, Festival Filmer a tout prix Brusel 2015, IDFF Jihlava 2021, DOKUDOC Maribor 2022.
Retrospects: DOCsk Košice 2011, Febiofest Bratislava 2014.
Gogola is author of essays what published in media and books.
Filmography, e.g., The Prison of History (co-director M. Hrudička, 2023), Eternal Jožo or How I Met a Star (2020), Excursions or History of the Present (2015), František of His Own Kind (2014), Mythmaking (2013), Breathless: I love My Boring Life (2009), Across the Border: Czech Velenice Infinity (2004), Situation of the Street or the Czech Sea in Eighteen Tidal Waves (2001), Nonstop (2000). Script editor (dramaturg), e.g., Art Talent Show (T. Bojar, A. Komrzý), Caught in the Net (B. Chalupová, V. Klusák), Czech Dream (F. Remunda, V. Klusák); 66 Seasons, Cooking History (P. Kerekes); Ester (V. Chytilová); Forman vs. Forman (J. Hejna, H. Třeštíková), How I Became a Partisan (V. Lacková), A Hole in the Head (R. Kirchhoff), Jan Palach (R. Sedláček), Kapr Code, Lost Holiday (L. Králová); Matchmaking Mayor (E. Hníková), A New Shift (J. Andrš), Off Sides (T. Bojar, R. Kohoutová), Other Worlds (M. Škop); Over the Hills (M. Mareček), Private Century (J. Šikl), The Sailor (L. Kašová), Steam on the River (R. Kirchhoff, F. Remunda), Town of Glory (D. Bogoljubov), René, Katka, Mallory (H. Třeštíková), Saving One Who Was Dead (V. Kadrnka), The White World According to Daliborek (V. Klusák), The World According to My Dad (M. Svobodová).
Masterclass: DOK Leipzig 2011, DOCsk Košice 2011, Festival Filmer a tout prix Brusel 2015, IDFF Jihlava 2021, DOKUDOC Maribor 2022.
Retrospects: DOCsk Košice 2011, Febiofest Bratislava 2014.
Gogola is author of essays what published in media and books.