Tomáš Šimon

Czech Republic

Tomáš Šimon

producer

Camera tortura

Camera tortura

The director, a young man in his thirties going through a life crisis, approaches his estranged parents to help him paint his apartment. Conversations accompanied by a paint roller and paint thinner open up old wrongs…
The Land of Abandonment I.: The Girl With a Whip

The Land of Abandonment I.: The Girl With a Whip

Voice, face, body and whip. In a tense monologue, a girl looks back at the long shadow cast by the act of rape, which has materialized in the surprising form of an all-too-vivid whip. Slowly receding, the camera zooms…
The Longest Dream Lasts 45 Minutes

The Longest Dream Lasts 45 Minutes

The moment just after waking up, in which the outlines of the dream reality dissolve into three dots behind the sentence “I had a dream that…,” gives a glimpse into the consciousness of a person suffering from short…
Of fences and men

Of fences and men

The iconography of garden communities, which also includes fences, is spread out before us in a pictorial-sound study of a Czech phenomenon. All those swings, cottages, rusting gates and weed-ridden concrete panel…
Quarry

Quarry

Anežka lives surrounded by cracks left by the (in)presence of her foster son and begs God for him to turn to faith. Fragments of echoes from his prison cell alternate with the daily routines that fill the stretching…
Found by the One She Seeks

Found by the One She Seeks

A meditative documentary follows life of acclaimed translator Anna Kareninová. Through personal diaries from trips to France and Italy, we set out together to meet the rhythm of the language of Louis-Ferdinand Célin and…
Healing me

Healing me

May all beings be healthy.
Sparkly shiny brightly see, kaleidoscope grows from ears

Sparkly shiny brightly see, kaleidoscope grows from ears

Tuning of awareness. Garden and butterflies, storm, and then you figured out that you’ve been watching the surface the whole time and here come the aliens who bring the language. Talking and meeting the light, flights…
Puddles, I Don’t Know

Puddles, I Don’t Know

Dry ground, gravel, cracks in the asphalt, a look into a microscope, and a weather map as parts of an associative string based on the theme of waiting for the rain. The visual poem shows the soil in close-ups, adding…
Solos for Members of Parliament

Solos for Members of Parliament

Twenty-one politicians reply to the question of how they view the Czech Republic’s future. The survey, built on the democratic principles of equality and freedom of speech, provides the same conditions for all of the…
Built To Last - Relics of Socialist Architecture

Built To Last - Relics of Socialist Architecture

Experimental/documentary film project Built to Last consisting of 10 short films is depicting socialist architecture and related communist history in the cities of the former Eastern Europe.