Troublemaking Women: To Be the Model or Make the Art?

synopsis

For a long time, women were primarily objects of male desire and inspiration. Works of art frequently depicted naked female bodies. But does a woman have to be naked to be truly seen? How are women changing the established view of the female body through their art? A radical stance was taken by a prominent film personality, a woman who managed to assert herself in a male-dominated world through her determination: film director Věra Chytilová. And her followers today are springing up like mushrooms after rain. Through her films, drawings, and rap songs, artist Marie Lukáčová undermines today's stereotypes about (not only) women's bodies.

biography

Bibiana Beňová is an experienced television and film director who has been working with Czech Television and RTVS for many years. In 2015, she presented her feature-length directorial debut, Ghosts, at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and the Cinematik International Film Festival in Piešťany. She has made dozens of medium-length documentary films, focusing primarily on themes of identity and memory, as well as visual art.

film details

director:	Bibiana Beňová
producer:	Veronika Slámová
script:	Bibiana Beňová
photography:	Ludvík Otevřel, Robert Novák
editing:	Simona Donovalová
sound:	Ivan Horák
script dramaturgy:	Jana Marxtová

contact

Tomáš Karmazín / Česká televize
tomas.karmazin@ceskatelevize.cz