Velvet FAMU

director: Jan Rousek, Lea Petříková

original title: Sametová FAMU

country: Czech Republic

year: 2019

running time: 52 min.

synopsis

The film shows the activity of students of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) during the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Through the confrontation of archives, memories of former students – now figures of the cultural scene – and the input of current students, it examines the most important political initiative of the film school students in the late 1980s.

biography

Lea Petříková (1992) and Jan Rousek (1984) are postgraduate students at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Lea Petříková focuses on visual art and theoretical research, and she is working on an experimental project entitled Podle čaroděje. Jan Rousek focuses on the reflection of history (Aktiv, 2017, Lidové milice, 2018).

more about film

director:	Jan Rousek, Lea Petříková
producer:	Martina Šantavá, FAMU
photography:	Jan Rousek
editing:	Jan Rousek
sound:	Vojtěch Zavadil

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