Jan Gogola jr.

Czech Republic

Jan Gogola jr.

director, dramaturgy

Czech Photo

Czech Photo

Series of 13 creative documentaries mapping the themes that characterize aesthetical and ideological diversity of the Czech photography (mainly in 20th century). It does not aspire to be an all-embracing encyclopedia of…
Excursions

Excursions

A film excursion to the places of Europe’s history and to ourselves. Cruiser Aurora, the symbol of Russia, is leaving for repairs the river, in which the history of the world flows.
Mythmaking

Mythmaking

Kateřina Šedá, a figure of international renown, enters with her social and art projects the life of her native Brno-Líšeň and the neighbouring Bedřichovice village. A montage of two parallel and mutually intertwined…
A Catapult of Fate

A Catapult of Fate

A creative documentary film portrait of Olda Říha, frontman of a famous Czech rock band Katapult celebrating 35 years of its existence. The first day of shooting captures the funeral of bass guitar player and Říha's…
Borders Our Way

Borders Our Way

Can we find in ourselves inner borders of our identity, if there is no visible border set anymore? How can we understand our society in the time of disappearing borders, both real and imaginary ones? How is this general…
Czechia on a String

Czechia on a String

A situational essay on the Czech identity on the backdrop of the Goose on a String theatre in Brno. The seriously playful collage consists of stage-managed documentary, theatre and discussion fragments, presenting among…
I Love My Boring Life

I Love My Boring Life

The diary of a grandmother from the Prague neighbourhood of Zbraslav as a diary of eternity. Using informal language, for five years grandmother Alena Němcová from Zbraslav has been writing down weather forecasts,…
History of Jaroslav Šabata

History of Jaroslav Šabata

The film features the psychologist, politician and journalist Jaroslav Šabata (*1927) who symbolizes half a century of Czech history. The film explains the traces left by left-wing intelligentsia who first served the…
The Tadpole, the Rabbit and the Holy Spirit

The Tadpole, the Rabbit and the Holy Spirit

For four years, the orthodox priest, Libor Halík, has been singing psalms outside the maternity hospital in Brno. This is his everyday protest against abortions. The documentary features a man who is convinced that…
4 Things

4 Things

Full-length picture of four short films of four directors: Test: Václav Švankmajer, feature film Motocyklení: Markéta Válková, documentary Veci: Marta Hrubá, documentary Grandmother Nemcová's Diary: Jan Gogola ml.,…
Situation of the Street, or the Czech Sea in Eighteen Tidal Waves

Situation of the Street, or the Czech Sea in Eighteen Tidal Waves

A story of Prague's National Street captured in the here and now. National Street exceedes the presence of a street which, however, is not present - its essential film presence is, then, a negation of presence, a…
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