24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Can
director: Lucie Navrátilová
original title: Konzerva
country: Czech Republic
year: 2017
running time: 14 min.
synopsis
This experimental film collage makes use of documentary, fiction and animated film techniques. The fading traces of childhood are mixed with the folk culture of the Haná region, all of it shot on 16mm film. The filmmaker thus preserves her chosen motifs, which are slowly but irrevocably disappearing from the present day.
biography
Lucie Navrátilová (1994) is a student of editing at FAMU, where she shot the short film Bloody Lover (2016). She also worked on the documentary film Trabant: From Australia To Bangkok (2016).
more about film
| director: | Lucie Navrátilová |
| cast: | Helena Buiglová, Tomáš Borůvka, Eliška Raiterová |
| producer: | Ondřej Šejnoha |
| script: | Lucie Navrátilová |
| photography: | Jan Hecht |
| editing: | Lucie Navrátilová |
| sound: | Miroslav Chaloupka |
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