- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Czech Republic
Tůma Radek
Midsummer Night's Dream
This film by Radek Tůma is a modern lyrical experiment that is fascinating for its formal immediacy and spontaneous expressions of joy as it emphasizes the sensual aspects of life and a return to nature. Tůma's film is a sovereign cinematic space which, broken up into many chapters, takes an unconventional look at contemporary Czech society. The opening political grotesque on the presidential election is drowned out by the ecstatic ramblings of philosophising (and chattering) fragments turning on the sought-out axis of life and the world, and especially the introspective images full of colourful objectivity and charming humour, elevated to the level of pure poetry.
Plani di giardini ideali
A Baroque western with documentary elements that sprouts from the seed of a mystical rose, much like the meeting of protozoa in glass of water decaying with wheat. The film’s windows easily double up beneath the breezes of Venetian streets, the hills and quarries of Palava, and in the nooks and crannies of Podbaba, in order to take you away to the songs of birds, fish, stalks of dandelion and macho thistles, into the past, present and future reveries of ideals. Is it possible to sign off from humanity? Is the wolf a sweet child of innocence? Have you ever had a cosmic bee on the bucket?
Theatre de la liberte
Radek Tuma, the author behind the poetic documentary A Night's Dream in the Middle of the Summer (2005), is shooting a film, but it is not yet completed, so he decides to use its fragments to inspire a theatrical composition. The drama will thus be an interlude between the shot and the uncompleted film material, the moment when the film enters his body, becomes him, and continues from him. On this the director remarks: The evening has been set thus. In the space it is necessary to find a spot where you as a physical entity, in any metamorphosis, will be illuminated in its extraordinary (but also natural) light. Opera animalis or cinetheatre. Fragments of a baroque western, song and dance.
(Untitled)
This film by Radek Tůma (titled Untitled) is a modern lyrical experiment that is fascinating for its formal immediacy and spontaneous expressions of joy as it emphasizes the sensual aspects of life and a return to nature. Tůma's film is a sovereign cinematic space which, broken up into many chapters, takes an unconventional look at contemporary Czech society. The opening political grotesque on the presidential election is drowned out by the ecstatic ramblings of philosophising (and chattering) fragments turning on the sought-out axis of life and the world, and especially the introspective images full of colourful objectivity and charming humour, elevated to the level of pure poetry.
In Praise of Lunacy
Father Merry-Go-Round and Mother Fawn announce an end to the age of reason. This evening, as in other times, the Lunatics are born. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (3rd year)
IMAGO PATRI
A lyrical film experiment emphasizing the meaning of life and a return to nature. - Deparment of documentary film, FAMU - 5th year.
This film by Radek Tůma is a modern lyrical experiment that is fascinating for its formal immediacy and spontaneous expressions of joy as it emphasizes the sensual aspects of life and a return to nature. Tůma's film is a sovereign cinematic space which, broken up into many chapters, takes an unconventional look at contemporary Czech society. The opening political grotesque on the presidential election is drowned out by the ecstatic ramblings of philosophising (and chattering) fragments turning on the sought-out axis of life and the world, and especially the introspective images full of colourful objectivity and charming humour, elevated to the level of pure poetry.
Plani di giardini ideali
A Baroque western with documentary elements that sprouts from the seed of a mystical rose, much like the meeting of protozoa in glass of water decaying with wheat. The film’s windows easily double up beneath the breezes of Venetian streets, the hills and quarries of Palava, and in the nooks and crannies of Podbaba, in order to take you away to the songs of birds, fish, stalks of dandelion and macho thistles, into the past, present and future reveries of ideals. Is it possible to sign off from humanity? Is the wolf a sweet child of innocence? Have you ever had a cosmic bee on the bucket?
Theatre de la liberte
Radek Tuma, the author behind the poetic documentary A Night's Dream in the Middle of the Summer (2005), is shooting a film, but it is not yet completed, so he decides to use its fragments to inspire a theatrical composition. The drama will thus be an interlude between the shot and the uncompleted film material, the moment when the film enters his body, becomes him, and continues from him. On this the director remarks: The evening has been set thus. In the space it is necessary to find a spot where you as a physical entity, in any metamorphosis, will be illuminated in its extraordinary (but also natural) light. Opera animalis or cinetheatre. Fragments of a baroque western, song and dance.
(Untitled)
This film by Radek Tůma (titled Untitled) is a modern lyrical experiment that is fascinating for its formal immediacy and spontaneous expressions of joy as it emphasizes the sensual aspects of life and a return to nature. Tůma's film is a sovereign cinematic space which, broken up into many chapters, takes an unconventional look at contemporary Czech society. The opening political grotesque on the presidential election is drowned out by the ecstatic ramblings of philosophising (and chattering) fragments turning on the sought-out axis of life and the world, and especially the introspective images full of colourful objectivity and charming humour, elevated to the level of pure poetry.
In Praise of Lunacy
Father Merry-Go-Round and Mother Fawn announce an end to the age of reason. This evening, as in other times, the Lunatics are born. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (3rd year)
IMAGO PATRI
A lyrical film experiment emphasizing the meaning of life and a return to nature. - Deparment of documentary film, FAMU - 5th year.
My name is Radek Tůma. I was born in 1976 in Náchod – West Bohemia. Firsts 15 years of my life I spent in Nové Město nad Metují. Then I moved to Jablonec nad Nisou, because of studying on the Bussiness Academy. There I founded a small theatre group Kočovná divadelní společnost Klekíhopetry. After the leaving examination I worked in Theatre Husa na Provázku (Goose on the Sprink) in Brno as a civil serviceman.
Now I study in fourth class on FAMU in Prague, specialisation – Directing of documentary films.
I wrote five theatre plays (Mysterius escape of a teatcher Běta on a trip to far Nicaragua or Vinnetou is goig to heaven, The Klapzuba’s 11, The Camp of Unswimmers, The Strawbery Operetes, and The Kilimandgaro), one book of poems (A red automobil d´notre amour), and six films (The Wedding, To the Swan, Joker‘s adventrures on a castle L., The trips to the mountains, Mobilis in Mobili, and The Praise of the Insanes).
Five yers ago I´ve discovered a new watergame – Wattermeloon polo. Tree week ago I founded the film company Café Fatale.
In this time I am working on special version of the Hamlet by the table, on the Expostition of a Man, on a Comedia dell Arte in trees and on Golem - living legend of the Power.