One Last Time in the Fields

synopsis

A filmed explication and a discovered script, composed of melodies and images for a film that was once supposed to be made. In the beginning was Bohuslav Martinů’s cantata Kytice – or rather, its part titled “Man and Death”, a musical adaptation of Sušil’s collection of folk poetry. Inspired by it, writer and painter Ivan Matoušek created an eschatological still-life that then influenced his novel The Ego. This path is followed not just by the story of the film’s creation but by the film itself, a brief depiction of man on the road towards death, moving slowly amidst a waving field. Images become a parable of our own mortality.

“You can only quote yourself in your own work.” P. Havlík

biography

Přemysl Havlík (1979) studied film, television, photography and new media at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. His documentary work focuses in particular on the subject of classical music. For instance, he did a short portrait of composer and conductor Miloš Bok for Czech Television. He is also a photographer, and his works have been published in Czech magazines such as Revolver Revue, Literární noviny and Tvar.

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