Football Inside Out
A docu-reality series based on the principles of the successful documentary feature Two Nil. 8 football stadiums, 8 matches, 8 parts. Fans as stars, stars as fans. Five different football fans - each representing a specific human type - are observed from long-distance throughout one recognized football derby as they react to different events of the game. Each of them does that in his own, unique way. This lively, authentic footage is subsequently shown to the football players who were involved in the game. Their task is to pick the \"Fan of the match\" who eventually takes part in the final penalty shootout. Football is thus presented inside out: in our show it is the fans who play the central role, while football players act as spectators. It is an original format with strong comic potential that also includes social commentary.
Day and Night
Stromovka Park (originally the King's Royal Game Preserve) and its close environment may become a downsized model (microcosm) of the world at large in which we see Nature, Man and society generally mirrored. Over the course of one year life of specific inhabitants is caught on camera as well as the process of Nature from birth to extinction within the metaphor of the life cycle. The film isn't meant to offer an objective view but in undisguised fashion use the director's perspective: the unifying gauge and bond between the depicted realities is the director himself whose long-term relationship with the afore-mentioned space has engendered a deep emotional link from childhood right to the present. As methodology he has chosen patient observation. He asserts the feasibility of not interfering in the observed course of events and rejects manipulation with reality. The authors’ attention focuses on the most common expressions of everyday life, albeit, when it comes to it, significant in the human context.
Komedie Theatre
Shortly before it was shut down, Komedie Theatre invited the filmmakers to capture some of the major plays staged by the theatre. The plays featured in the series include The Trial; Offending the Audience; The Last Days of Mankind; Garbage, the City and Death; Goebbels / Baarová; Oil Lamps; Weissenstein; Anticlimax; Overweight, unimportant: Misshape, and The Suffering of Prince Sternenhoch.
Ordinary Pond
“Green” influencer and filmmaker Prokop Pithart is not afraid to openly criticize the institutions responsible for nature conservation and their flawed approach to protecting the environment. But theorizing online is not enough for him. He decides to restore a leased pond in the heart of the Třeboň Basin to nature and prove to the world that it is possible to manage it sustainably.
Together with his father, a hydrobiologist, other natural scientists and friends, he embarks on a challenging journey, documenting it all in a video diary. But nature plays by its own rules. Moments of revival alternate with minor and major disasters: first, the pond becomes overgrown with cattails, then it nearly dries up. Even the first fish harvest brings little reason for celebration.
Increasingly frustrated, Prokop begins to lose faith in the purpose of his efforts. His refuge becomes filming the surrounding wildlife. Spectacular wildlife footage, captured with the help of fellow filmmakers, helps both him and the audience understand the intricate relationships within the rare and endangered pond ecosystem, protected as part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
A particularly meaningful encounter comes when a family of little ringed plovers nests on the dried-up pond bed and successfully raises its young. Because nature makes use of every situation — even those that may appear to humans as loss or defeat.
Just as Prokop slowly begins to come to terms with reality, water starts flowing into the pond again, almost miraculously. Perhaps thanks to his hard work, perhaps through a combination of circumstances beyond his control. What will happen to the pond next?
Together with his father, a hydrobiologist, other natural scientists and friends, he embarks on a challenging journey, documenting it all in a video diary. But nature plays by its own rules. Moments of revival alternate with minor and major disasters: first, the pond becomes overgrown with cattails, then it nearly dries up. Even the first fish harvest brings little reason for celebration.
Increasingly frustrated, Prokop begins to lose faith in the purpose of his efforts. His refuge becomes filming the surrounding wildlife. Spectacular wildlife footage, captured with the help of fellow filmmakers, helps both him and the audience understand the intricate relationships within the rare and endangered pond ecosystem, protected as part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
A particularly meaningful encounter comes when a family of little ringed plovers nests on the dried-up pond bed and successfully raises its young. Because nature makes use of every situation — even those that may appear to humans as loss or defeat.
Just as Prokop slowly begins to come to terms with reality, water starts flowing into the pond again, almost miraculously. Perhaps thanks to his hard work, perhaps through a combination of circumstances beyond his control. What will happen to the pond next?