- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Czech Republic
Marková Taťána
Revolution Girls
Revolution Girls is the story of one generation of Czech women who took part in the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Though their lives took different directions after the student strike in 1989, they still share some of the zeal required to achieve the things they believe in. Jana, a representative in the EU Parliament, is passionate about saving the world. Alena writes one book after another, searching the past for hints that would inspire the present. Alice is a successful entrepreneur who raises an adopted Roma daughter and fulfills her childhood dream of having a big family. Pavla puts her energy into a career in the music business while searching for her place in life. Are they living their dreams? How many revolutions does a woman go through by the time she is forty? What can their stories tell us about the time and place they live in?
Revolution Girls is the story of one generation of Czech women who took part in the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Though their lives took different directions after the student strike in 1989, they still share some of the zeal required to achieve the things they believe in. Jana, a representative in the EU Parliament, is passionate about saving the world. Alena writes one book after another, searching the past for hints that would inspire the present. Alice is a successful entrepreneur who raises an adopted Roma daughter and fulfills her childhood dream of having a big family. Pavla puts her energy into a career in the music business while searching for her place in life. Are they living their dreams? How many revolutions does a woman go through by the time she is forty? What can their stories tell us about the time and place they live in?
Summerhouses
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.
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.
Taťána Marková studied film and theatre in Prague (Charles University, the Faculty of Philosophy, FAMU, DAMU - Alternative Acting and Psychology) and in Los Angeles (USC, the School of Cinematic Arts). She was one of the editors of the documentary film Vukovar: A City or a Past?, awarded VH1/Witness Honor in Hollywood in 1996. She is also a theatre director and actress. In her own Theatre Na Kocourkách she has realized tens of inscenations. She used to work at following institutions as a pedagogue: FAMU, FFUK, College of Education in Prague, Plzeň and Ústí nad Labem. She works as a head of development in Film&Sociology
2012 Čarodějka, soudkyně a vládkyně (Long Hair Means Short Reason) – work in progress - director2010 Evoluce 4 z revoluce (Four Velvet Men Then and Now) – archival research.2009 Holky z fildy (Revolution Girls) – co -director and script-writer – with Natasha Dudinski.1993 Vukovar: A City or A Past? – one of the editors of a documentary about war in ex-Jugoslavia
Film & Sociology
Pod Zvonařkou 10
120 00 Prague 2
Pod Zvonařkou 10
120 00 Prague 2
Fulbright Scholarship – 1991-92
Postgraduate Stipend at Charles University – 1987-91
Honor for being a member of a collective of teachers in film aesthetics and history at Teacher´s Colleges – 1989
Member of a Jury at the Film Festival of Czech and Slovak Film in Bratislava – 1990