- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Slovak Republic
Remo Miro
Cans of Time
The Cans of Time is a film rendering of the themes and outcomes of the Family Archives project. The aim of the Family archives was to collect and digitalize amateur film footage from various regions across the Slovak republic. In four years we collected around 400 hours of footage. Apart from the popular and traditional family footage the project has managed to source some rare historical footage such as the one capturing the construction of a huge sculpture of the Slovak politician M.R. Štefánik in 1937, or a few cases of private footage capturing the Russian invasion of 1968. Of an interesting value is also the insight the footage offers into various forms and shapes of the life of the middle classes.
Arsy-Versy
The film is a story of a mother and her son Lubos who lives in a world turned upside-down, or, arsy-versy. Lubos broke free from the world as generally conceived by others to arrive at the supreme human-nature symbiosis; he flew away to a planet purely inhabited by butterflies - intelligent beings. The sole focus of his life energy, enriched by a great deal of empathy, is being channelled into his amateur photography and film making, the climax of his fascination with natural phenomenon being his unique study of bats. By way of communicating with the upside-down creatures he is fascinated with, he attempts to achieve the utmost understanding between man and beast. He is assisted by his mother who has been a great research and life
Cans of Time - The Eighters
Members of The Ladce amateur film club meet again after many years and bring their dreams and aspirations face to face with reality. They both screen old movies and evaluate the passed time. * The Cans of Time is a TV series rendering of the themes and outcomes of the Family Archives project. The aim of the Family archives was to collect and digitalize amateur film footage from various regions across the Slovak republic. In five years we collected around 500 hours of footage. Apart from the popular and traditional family footage the project has managed to source some rare historical footage such as the one capturing the construction of a huge sculpture of the Slovak politician M.R. Štefánik in 1937, or a few cases of private footage capturing the Russian invasion of 1968. Of an interesting value is also the insight the footage offers into various forms and shapes of the life of the middle classes.
The Cans of Time is a film rendering of the themes and outcomes of the Family Archives project. The aim of the Family archives was to collect and digitalize amateur film footage from various regions across the Slovak republic. In four years we collected around 400 hours of footage. Apart from the popular and traditional family footage the project has managed to source some rare historical footage such as the one capturing the construction of a huge sculpture of the Slovak politician M.R. Štefánik in 1937, or a few cases of private footage capturing the Russian invasion of 1968. Of an interesting value is also the insight the footage offers into various forms and shapes of the life of the middle classes.
Arsy-Versy
The film is a story of a mother and her son Lubos who lives in a world turned upside-down, or, arsy-versy. Lubos broke free from the world as generally conceived by others to arrive at the supreme human-nature symbiosis; he flew away to a planet purely inhabited by butterflies - intelligent beings. The sole focus of his life energy, enriched by a great deal of empathy, is being channelled into his amateur photography and film making, the climax of his fascination with natural phenomenon being his unique study of bats. By way of communicating with the upside-down creatures he is fascinated with, he attempts to achieve the utmost understanding between man and beast. He is assisted by his mother who has been a great research and life
Cans of Time - The Eighters
Members of The Ladce amateur film club meet again after many years and bring their dreams and aspirations face to face with reality. They both screen old movies and evaluate the passed time. * The Cans of Time is a TV series rendering of the themes and outcomes of the Family Archives project. The aim of the Family archives was to collect and digitalize amateur film footage from various regions across the Slovak republic. In five years we collected around 500 hours of footage. Apart from the popular and traditional family footage the project has managed to source some rare historical footage such as the one capturing the construction of a huge sculpture of the Slovak politician M.R. Štefánik in 1937, or a few cases of private footage capturing the Russian invasion of 1968. Of an interesting value is also the insight the footage offers into various forms and shapes of the life of the middle classes.
Wonderful Men In Crazy Dreams
In the Czechoslovakia of the late 1970s, hundreds of enthusiasts - amateurs attempted to find creative expression although any permissible self-realization or public presentation was under the ideological control of the communist party. The film follows a number of film amateurs who realized their original and crazy ideas in spite of the ill-will of the state, developing their unconventional film language, which, nevertheless, was mostly misunderstood by the public.
Comeback
Recidivism is a serious problem. Things that people in the outside world consider normal and ordinary pose great problems for ex-convicts. No place to stay, disowned by their families, jobless and with a criminal record. They have no clothes to wear and no food to eat. The film is a social study of the world of prisoners. It follows the life of two recidivists while they are in prison and later, as they make their first steps outside the gates of the most closely watched Slovak jail accompanied by a journalist.
The Swan Bride
In Swan Bride we witness the clash of generations through a portrait of the members of a music band during their tour in the Balkans. The musicians define themselves against the mass pop culture that dominates the media. They rebel against the visions of their parents and long for the fulfillment of their own dreams. Disillusioned by the world of business and money, they look for more, although they don’t see what it should be. „Maybe it’s time to clear our heads and decide what comes next,” says the bass player Fuxo, the head of the group. On their way to the Balkans in a white van they try to straighten out their plans and ambitions. The movie is a documentary about decisions, attitudes and plans that will lead to a revival of their enthusiasm or to the end of their band.
In the Czechoslovakia of the late 1970s, hundreds of enthusiasts - amateurs attempted to find creative expression although any permissible self-realization or public presentation was under the ideological control of the communist party. The film follows a number of film amateurs who realized their original and crazy ideas in spite of the ill-will of the state, developing their unconventional film language, which, nevertheless, was mostly misunderstood by the public.
Comeback
Recidivism is a serious problem. Things that people in the outside world consider normal and ordinary pose great problems for ex-convicts. No place to stay, disowned by their families, jobless and with a criminal record. They have no clothes to wear and no food to eat. The film is a social study of the world of prisoners. It follows the life of two recidivists while they are in prison and later, as they make their first steps outside the gates of the most closely watched Slovak jail accompanied by a journalist.
The Swan Bride
In Swan Bride we witness the clash of generations through a portrait of the members of a music band during their tour in the Balkans. The musicians define themselves against the mass pop culture that dominates the media. They rebel against the visions of their parents and long for the fulfillment of their own dreams. Disillusioned by the world of business and money, they look for more, although they don’t see what it should be. „Maybe it’s time to clear our heads and decide what comes next,” says the bass player Fuxo, the head of the group. On their way to the Balkans in a white van they try to straighten out their plans and ambitions. The movie is a documentary about decisions, attitudes and plans that will lead to a revival of their enthusiasm or to the end of their band.
Miro Remo was born in Ladce, in the small industrial village in the centre of Slovakia in 1983. He graduated grammar-school in 2001, then settled in Bratislava, capital city of Slovakia. He is working as graphic designer for 7 years in the small IT company and studying directing at University of performing arts in Bratislava. His three student’s films were shown at many festivals around the world and received more than 40 awards together. His last film Arsy-Versy is the most succesfull film in the history of university, where Miro is in postgradual study, with over 30 international and domestic prizes. Since 2010, he is an internal doctoral student at The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.
RSY – VERSY: Special Prize of the Jury (28th Uppsala International Short Film Festival / Uppsala, Sweden), Special Prize of the Jury (SILVER EYE AWARD / 12th The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival / Jihlava, Czech republic), Special Prize of the Jury
(12th festival of slovak students films ACKO / Bratislava, Slovakia), The Wallflower Press Student Doc Award (16th Sheffield Doc/Fest / United Kingdom), BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY (50° FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI / Firenze, Italy), Golden Frame Statuette (Young Cinema Art Festival / Krakow, Poland), Best Documentary (10th Student and Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers / Tallin, Estonia), Best Documentary (29th MUNICH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILM SCHOOLS / Munich, Germany), Best slovak school documentary (Kiinema film roka / Bratislava, Slovakia), Bronze Dinosaur (16th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima 2009 / Cracow, Poland), Best International Nature Documentary (New York International Independent Film and Video Festival / USA), The Silver Lion Award (The International Film Festival / Taipei, Taiwan), "ION BOSTAN" prize (Best director of documentary at student film festival CineMAiubit / Bucharest, Romania), Absolútny víťaz a najlepší študentský dokument Višegrádu (Medzinárodný festival študentských filmov Zlínsky pes 2010 / Zlín, Czech republic), 2nd prize in the short film commpetition (Hot Docs Internetion Documentary Film Festival / Toronto, Canada), 1. Festival director's prize for the best slovak director and 2. Prize in the category D - Creating a Independent Films and Films for Children and Youth (16Th International Film Festival ENVIROFILM /Banská Bystrica, Slovakia), Audience Award (26. Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg 2010 / Hamburg, Germany), Bonus awards for creative work /ARSY-VERSY/, 21st Slovak Film Prize IGRIC
First Prize (Short film festival Brain Wash / London, England), Honorary Award in category – FILM FUTURE 3000 (Ars&Film 2010, 6th European Festival of Films on Art / Telč, Czech republic), 1st Prize - Category: Documentary - Golden Grape (39th Lubuskie Film Summer - International Film Festival / Lagów, Poland), Prize: Centaur (20th Message to Man International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival / St. Petersburg, Russia), Premio Cinemambulante (7Th Euganea film festival 2010 / Padova, Italy), The best foreign documentary shorter than 60 minutes (TRANZYT documentary film festival / Poznan, Poland), Best documentary award ("NoemartFilmFestival”, festival of Documentary art / Rieti, Italy), Special prize of Jury (36th EKOFILM - International Film Festival on the Environment and Natural and Cultural Heritage / Ceske Budejoviece, Czech republic), Green2gether films Award (Vilnius film shorts'10 /Vilnius, Lithuania), Best documentary award (First Step Film Festival / Tirana, Albania), Grand Prize (Cinema Verite: 4th Iran International Documentary Film Festival / Teheran, Iran), Central Europe Discovery Networks award (Plus Cameraimage 2010 / Bydgoszcz, Poland), Best documentary (1th Tell it quick film Internet film festival / Zilina, Slovakia), Main Award (9th Gdansk DocFilm Festival / Gdansk, Poland), Grand Prize (41th Marin County Festival of Short Film and Video /San Rafael, California, USA)