Pecking Order
This rather unusual documentary film is made by a group of mentally handicapped participants of the film workshop run by Inventura, an association for the integration of mentally handicapped people into society through art. They are coached by Ivo Bystričan, author and director of the film. Pecking Order is inspired by the protracted government crisis in 2012, the escalation of corruption cases and ongoing civil protests. Mentally handicapped filmmakers are trying to find their own solutions to the crisis of governance. They are trying to find a new model of the functioning of government also into communities of a variety of animals. The crew conducts a dialogue with leading ethologist and sociobiologist Daniel Frynta of the Faculty of Science, and Mark Spinka of the Research Institute of Animal Production in Uhříněves.
For Health, for Glory and for Money - a Cycling Case Study
Documentary essay about cycling and money and snails. We will see this on eating. A cyclist must eat the best food to be the fastest and to have the best endurance. What do cyclists eat today and what did they use to eat? "When I used to race, I met Vendy. She used to be overtaken by the whole peloton at the first pitch, but her philosophy allowed her to enjoy the race all the same: she would admire the behaviour of snails on a wet road." We’ll have a dish prepared from snails by a famous chef and we will invite for lunch Zdenek Bakala, a Czech billionaire. We will meet Martina Sablíková and her couch, why she wasn´t allowed to start in Rio even though President Zeman interceded on her behalf? What exactly does a sport lobby do? And advertising...
150 Scenes of Life in Dissent in Time of New Establishment
After 1989 we are in a period of history where the individual parts of former dissent institutionalize themselves. Some of them find their place, while others identify themselves against. Papírníková together with her friends provokes both within the old and newly established institutions, because it is the part of Czech society whose attitudes have always been deep and strong. She points her camera at her friends, heroes of dissent and underground: Stanislav Penc, Jim Čert, Milan Smrčka, Karel Schwarzenberg, Dáša Vokatá, Heryán Ladislav, Josef Cecil, František Stárek, Miroslav Skalický and others. The ease, with which she films them, allows her to approach them very closely. They are captured with humor and understanding. The piece involves a possibility of philosophical interpretation.