Jan Šípek

Czech Republic

Jan Šípek

director, director of photography, script writer, editor

Cobble

Cobble

A parallel drawn between the construction of a sidewalk and the structure of a language. The film’s creator, having grown up in many European countries, comes to the Czech Republic and tries to master the language of…
Czechia Deforested

Czechia Deforested

The current climate crisis is feeding into the massive spread of the bark beetle, and it is already clear that it cannot be stopped. Entire forests are being cut down all across the Czech Republic, leaving huge…
Human Bodies and their Companions

Human Bodies and their Companions

With the help of a factual description of a series of consecutive actions between fire and sky, this short film seeks to answer the question of what’s going to become of us. And how an old man’s knee joint can transform…
Let's all get back on the ground

Let's all get back on the ground

Dinosaur politicians, dinosaur scientists, a dinosaur activist and dinosaur friends, all responding to the climate crisis in their own way. In the depopulated streets during the coronavirus lockdown, in isolation…
Marsonaut

Marsonaut

The colonisation of Mars went from being pure science fiction to becoming a reality in 2020, with the first steps now being taken to achieve what was thought to be the impossible. The film’s heroine Michaela Musilová…
Reborn

Reborn

A world of women who’ve been reborn and who’ve found an unusual side to their maternal instincts.
Substantial actuality

Substantial actuality

A love story of two ill-fated statues filmed from their own subjective perspectives. This film explores a common problem amongst sculpture students, whose works often have nowhere to go and are left to be destroyed as a…
Buttons of Consciousness

Buttons of Consciousness

This creative experimental documentary about frontiers of Eastern meditation and Western science, tries to embody what it deals with - meditation itself.
Fighting the Brain

Fighting the Brain

A threefold portrait, presenting the reality within the limits of a subjective view, puts together the lives of an increasingly more remote writer and musician; a hacker, dreaming his dream of transformation into a…
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