Camera tortura
Petr Michal / Czech Republic / 2024 / World Premiere / 36 min.
synopsis
The director, a young man in his thirties going through a life crisis, approaches his estranged parents to help him paint his apartment. Conversations accompanied by a paint roller and paint thinner open up old wrongs while revealing the complexity of interpersonal relationships. The absence of communication, or the lack of will to communicate, as a symptom of contemporary family ties, stands in contrast to caring for a family of pigeons that has made its nest on the director's balcony. The film, in its civility and authenticity, follows the lessons of a book dedicated to amateur filmmakers and thus enters into a subversive dialogue with the paradigms of film pedagogy. How can we live today, how can we create?“A family portrait of a diary-like, commemorative nature is a very good lesson for a beginner.”
Source: Camera tortura and the book KUČERA, Jan: Filmová tvorba amatéra
biography
Petr Michal (1986) graduated in documentary filmmaking from FAMU and has collaborated with Memory of Nations. His feature debut about the translator Anna Karenina, Found by the One She Seeks (2022), was nominated in the Czech Joy section at Ji.hlava IDFF and won at FAMUfest 2023.more about film
director: | Petr Michal |
producer: | Adam Ligas, Tomáš Šimon |
script: | Petr Michal |
photography: | Petr Michal |
editing: | Jakub Podmanický, Petr Michal |
sound: | Matěj Lindner |
contact
Alexandra Hroncová / FAMUalexandra.hroncova@famu.cz
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Screening time
Monday 28. 10. 2024, 17:00
Kino DKO I
Wednesday 30. 10. 2024, 14:00
DIOD
Sunday 03. 11. 2024, 10:00
Kino Dukla – Reform
Film at festival
premiere type: | World Premiere |
festival edition: | 2024 |
section: | Ji.hlava Online, Czech Joy |
language: | Czech |
subtitles: | English, Czech |
colour: | Colour |
Info
director: | Petr Michal |
original title: | Kamera tortura |
country: | Czech Republic |
year: | 2024 |
running time: | 36 min. |