- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Czech Republic
Petráň Tomáš
A documentary series about the vanishing handicrafts.
Conflict of Worlds and Ages
Conflict of Worlds and Ages is a floating and riding documentary about south and southeast China. The movie confronts the poor horizontal countryside with the vertical cities, the world of inherited values with the new Chinese economy that is an idiosyncratic mixture of traditions, Marxism and the Western market economy.
Cinemensonge (Film-Lie)
Stories of partner relationships serve as the starting point for a study of conscience (consciousness) and its relation to reality, which is, however, shot as a suicidal attack upon the faith in the truthfulness of the documentary (which is only dogma, distorted reality). And so the love affairs of a father bringing up two daughters become a peculiar experimental verification of film theories as the screenplay was written by the author together with C. G. Jung, Epstein, Kracauer, Balázs, Vertov, Bazin, Metz and Deleuze.
Seventeen
Cakes and Puppets Theatre celebrates the majority. What is the adolescentage of the travelling theater community about? Elderly teenage documentaryabout growing up in the theater, the miracle that keeps them together for 18years and also about how the years passed somehow quickly .
All the Teas of China
This film was shot in april 2000 in some of the provinces of south and south-east China. It describes the growing and making of the best known teas and legends linked to these. The apex of the expedition is the trip, by local means of transport - boats, trains, autobuses and on feet - into the jungle on the frontier of China and Barma in the south of Yunnan, where grows the oldest tea tree in the world, king of the tea trees Cha Shu Wang. The film describes the different provinces where tea is grown; different manners of production and preparation, as well as the social conditions of the peasants and inhabitants of these regions. The film presents also the history of tea and the legends linked to this famous discovery. Region and teas described in the film: town of Hang-zhou, tea Long-jin and village of the same name, Dragon's well with miracoulous water, town of Su-zhou, village Dong-shan and tea Pilochung, province Fujian and black teas like oolong, province Guangxi, town of Guiping, monasteries on the West mountain where the Xi-shan cha tea is made, province Yunnan, town of Kunming, the secret peocedure of making the Pu-er tea.
Botič, potok chudých
Portrait of filmmaker Jiří Lehovec.
Vidím město
A documentary about the developers' interests in Prague's urban development.
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