28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Techsquat
Techsquat
Techsquat
Techsquat

Techsquat

director: Tereza Bernátková
original title: Techsquat
country: Czech Republic
year: 2015
running time: 36 min.

synopsis

The new form of community living called techsquat is open to all creatives, entrepreneurs and managers who want to share their personal and working space-time with similar-minded people. Five young people living together in a Prague apartment like to think of techsquatting as a progressive and stimulating lifestyle. The filmmakers follow their daily lives as they test the viability of this idea. Their observational approach based on long static shots does not prevent them from engaging in a bit of sarcasm – as hinted at in their choice and ordering of scenes and fully revealed at the film’s end.

DETAIL:
“Quality – it’s basically an attribute of things, like how we spend our time or something that works well. I think that people can be of good quality, too, and I firmly hope that there are a lot of quality people here.”

biography

Tereza Bernátková is a student of documentary film at FAMU. At the Jihlava IDFF, she previously showed her half-hour student documentary In Love With (My Own) State (2014), about artist Milan Knížák and the relationship between the artist and the state. Techsquat is her bachelor film.

more about film

director: Tereza Bernátková
producer: Tereza Zemanová
photography: Jan Chajewski
editing: Mariana Kozáková
sound: Vojtěch Zavadil, Jakub Trš, Eliška Blauberová, Filip Johánek
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms