An Artist under the Bark of Our National Amusement Park
The specific art of bark beetles as seen through the aesthetic paradigms of our time. The Czech President simply observed with no relation to any paradigm at all. The actions of both the bug and the President commented by the right-wing positivist Jan Stráský - 1) director of the Šumava National Park; 2) Czech President's best friend; 3) crusader against bark beetles 4) avid supporter of nuclear energy 5) the one who doesn't care about owls. The explosive blend of guides and signposts along our walk through erosion rills include artists František Skála and Milan Knížák, the Explosionalist Manifesto by the late artist Vladimír Boudník and much more.
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.
Epic's Ways
Is The Slav Epic truly "a child who died at birth?" On the background of a journey of the twenty magnificent paintings film investigates in several thematic lines phenomena associated with a perception of the majestic legacy of Alphonse Mucha and his own - in many ways contradictory - personality. Art historians, philosophers, politicians, heirs, Japanese visitors, Czech parvenus and American philanthropists dispute and complement each other on various tableaux vivants, weaving a tissue of reflection which - although not easily fathomable - soundly proves The Slav Epic to be a baby still bloody alive.
Slav Epic Complex
Do we have an "epic" complex in a sense that we see “all too epic” as a relict of intentions that wanted to include everything in certain sphere? Does the Slav Epic has a complex of us who have not been able to agree for more than a hundred years, where is her place - permanent residence and sense? What happens when - in the midst of this obscurity - Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic all of the sudden visits Japan?