Human Beeing
The relationship between people and bees is one of the best mapped phenomena in human history. In most cultures, the honey bee used to be considered a sacred animal and enjoyed great respect. Today, due to our irresponsible interventions in nature, it is facing extinction. Together with Honeymen, two amateur beekeepers from Brno, we set out to search for an answer to how to save the bees. However, it soon becomes clear that it is not only the bees that are dying; it is also something in us. Human Beeing is a reflection upon modern humans losing their relationship both to nature and to themselves. It is not a film about the bees but with the bees. It is about humility, faith and dying humanity at a time of increasing dominance of technology.
Land of Fire
Land of Fire takes us on a journey through the Canadian wilderness, through remote areas of British Columbia where dark shadows of the past lurk in the forests. It is a land whose arteries are roads along which young women disappear. People struggle in vain to save their villages and families from vast forest fires. Lonely cars wander through a dark landscape like predators hunting prey. Only the faces of those who have disappeared witness what happened from the posters along the road.
No matter who we talk to here, everybody has a direct experience with violence, knowing somebody who died in a fight or went missing. People often turn to mythology and rituals in search of answers, they believe that when something bad happens to a person, the spirit leaves for the bush and the body keeps wandering the world without purpose.
We travel to a place that stands on ruins of the old world, a world of magical creatures of the wild that was destroyed long ago. The film is an abstract insight into phenomena of loss, grief and dimensions of living in a place struck by violence and wildfires.
Land of Fire follows a family seeking justice for their sister‘s and daughter’s murder, another family is struggling with the legacy of a community’s dead respected figure. Through the prism of often tragic personal experience the film delves into the interconnectedness of human existence, the clash between modernity and ancient lore, and the profound challenges faced by individuals seeking solace in the wild.
Fires subdue entire valleys, figures by the roadside illuminated only by passing cars look like ghosts, people dance around the fire in remembrance of the dead, and men venture into the woods to hunt bears. Can you find a place of healing in this dark forgotten world?
No matter who we talk to here, everybody has a direct experience with violence, knowing somebody who died in a fight or went missing. People often turn to mythology and rituals in search of answers, they believe that when something bad happens to a person, the spirit leaves for the bush and the body keeps wandering the world without purpose.
We travel to a place that stands on ruins of the old world, a world of magical creatures of the wild that was destroyed long ago. The film is an abstract insight into phenomena of loss, grief and dimensions of living in a place struck by violence and wildfires.
Land of Fire follows a family seeking justice for their sister‘s and daughter’s murder, another family is struggling with the legacy of a community’s dead respected figure. Through the prism of often tragic personal experience the film delves into the interconnectedness of human existence, the clash between modernity and ancient lore, and the profound challenges faced by individuals seeking solace in the wild.
Fires subdue entire valleys, figures by the roadside illuminated only by passing cars look like ghosts, people dance around the fire in remembrance of the dead, and men venture into the woods to hunt bears. Can you find a place of healing in this dark forgotten world?
PLAYTOPIA
Playtopia brings together eight children who have never met before inside a white, undefined space. Through play, debate, self-recorded fragments, and hand-made collage sequences, the film moves between the real and the imagined. Rather than offering answers, Playtopia observes how a society forms when children are left alone with the world we have given them.