My Country

Jiří Dvorský / Czechoslovakia / 1983 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 11 min.

synopsis

The city’s newly erected brutalist buildings stand in stark contrast to its crumbling historic monuments. Dvorský’s film is one of a number of critical cinematic experiments – an Eastern Koyaanisqatsi – which, throughout the 1980s, addressed the deteriorating state of urban planning and the environment in the Eastern Bloc.

biography

Jiří Dvorský (1957) is a director, cinematographer, editor and versatile filmmaker from the Pilsen alternative culture scene of the 1980s. He produced most of the films directed by Miroslav Čapek and Milan Kohout until 1989. After emigrating to the USA (1987), he worked on various American film productions.