Talking Cities
There are two types of cities. There are ones that prosper for a long time because they are capable of making changes that inspire our desires. And then there are places where desires take over and destroy everything. Most Europeans live in urban areas, cultivated by our ancestors for hundreds of years. How does this heritage shape us? What will we leave behind? We all want to live in inviting, friendly environments, not in museums. On the other hand, architecture should follow not only aesthetic but also ethical principles. Tastes and desires change, and the boundary between creativity and destruction is all too fragile. A film about Prague and other historical cities, about the past, present and the future, about dialogues between buildings and people, memory and creativity, ambition and humility.
Do You Love Each Other?
It is not easy for the present thirty-somethings. They are still licking wounds from the crazy ride on a roller coaster in the nineties and are right at the beginning of the middle age crisis. The society also trashes around in the hard transition. Continuous motion is the only certainty. The only certainty of individuals, funds and relationships. The film tries to define a new meaning of the word family and a whole generation. It tells the stories of three couples in two countries. All of them were brought up in Czechoslovakia during the socialist normalisation. What do all those people have in common? The marriage of a Slovak couple is a mixture of holy pictures and washing powder advertisements. The Bohemian artists Petra and Tomáš are in a constant fight with each other and with their previous engagements. Is the coexistence of René and Radana a real family when they don't want to have children? A lot of questions and a lot of answers create the mosaic of the Generation X. A Generation which has (hopefully) grown up, building its own nests.