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Director
Veronika Zapletalová
Producer
Taťána Marková ...
Production company
Film & Sociology
Director of photography
Veronika Zapletalová
Editor
Šárka Sklenářová
IDF Events
2010 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films ...
Planned premiere
April 2012
WWW
http://www.zapletalova.cz/chat...

Summerhouses

Chatařství , Czech Republic, 57 min, DVD, HD, Arts and Culture, Creative, Docu Series

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The art documentary film Summerhouses will capture the rapidly disappearing, specifically Czech phenomenon, the architecture of summerhouses. It is about summerhouses in which the striking personality of their builder – in the negative or positive sense – is reflected. They are the embodied form of human dreams, for these buildings create their own worlds which are an escape from the reality of the everyday. They are not emergency shelters; they are the architecture of an abstracted human happiness. The changes in society are reflected in them under the pressure of the time, the fettered human longings, opinions, a certain type of ‘trampish Romanticism‘, a longing for nature, for freedom, but also for community and creativity, linked with a do-it-yourself instinct, and a relative absence of religion. In the Czech countryside they are impossible to overlook and at the same time rapidly and irretrievably disappearing.

Director:

Veronika Zapletalová

Producer:

Jarmila Poláková, Taťána Marková

Screenplay:

Veronika Zapletalová

Director of photography:

Veronika Zapletalová

Editor:

Šárka Sklenářová

Sound:

Petr Šoltys