- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Czech Republic
Vavrečka Ondřej
News
There are verses - a film. The journal is here. Today is 3 December 2005. This is a Russian Weekly. These are the opening captions of the film. Then we are taken to Slavkov (Austerlitz), to see the Battle of Three Emperors re-enacted. Then, together with Napoleon, we follow general Kutuzov to Moscow. The montage weaves the web of the film, while also setting a trap for itself. FAMU, Department of Editing (2nd year - documentary film)
Ultimum Refugium
"Ultimum refugium" means “the last refuge” where we can hide when conditions are averse. That is our most fundamental position and a departure point of this project. Secondly and consequently, it is a film-collage structured along documentary footage with radical poetic means. The place: here (Czech Republic), there (Europe) and everywhere (Cosmos). The topic: the end – understood in the whole range of its meanings. On one side, the end is embodied in second thermodynamic law and, on the other side, the end is a tragedy that only mankind sees: the death. The film is an attempt to catch and let live both the eternity and the ephemeral moment in sound and image. It is a testimony combining sublime and poor, sacral and profane, barbarous and volatile. Selection of in-game professions: presidents, trade unions, free-mason, ship builder, ornithologist, old slavonic historian, designer, communist, priest, writer, prostitute, druid, sheep-killer and others.
Brooklyn-Manhattan
Documentary letter rolling between Brooklyn and Manhattan on eternity, everlasting cycles, performative arts and alternative musical clips.
There are verses - a film. The journal is here. Today is 3 December 2005. This is a Russian Weekly. These are the opening captions of the film. Then we are taken to Slavkov (Austerlitz), to see the Battle of Three Emperors re-enacted. Then, together with Napoleon, we follow general Kutuzov to Moscow. The montage weaves the web of the film, while also setting a trap for itself. FAMU, Department of Editing (2nd year - documentary film)
Ultimum Refugium
"Ultimum refugium" means “the last refuge” where we can hide when conditions are averse. That is our most fundamental position and a departure point of this project. Secondly and consequently, it is a film-collage structured along documentary footage with radical poetic means. The place: here (Czech Republic), there (Europe) and everywhere (Cosmos). The topic: the end – understood in the whole range of its meanings. On one side, the end is embodied in second thermodynamic law and, on the other side, the end is a tragedy that only mankind sees: the death. The film is an attempt to catch and let live both the eternity and the ephemeral moment in sound and image. It is a testimony combining sublime and poor, sacral and profane, barbarous and volatile. Selection of in-game professions: presidents, trade unions, free-mason, ship builder, ornithologist, old slavonic historian, designer, communist, priest, writer, prostitute, druid, sheep-killer and others.
Brooklyn-Manhattan
Documentary letter rolling between Brooklyn and Manhattan on eternity, everlasting cycles, performative arts and alternative musical clips.
In Between the Trees
A film about the ten most important words: kingdom (10), foundations (9), victory (8), gratitude (7), reconciliation (6), grace (5), forgiveness (4), wisdom (3), understanding (2), and a shining crown (1). The film is set in the contemporary reality of the Czech kingdom whose head – Václav Havel – just died. One of the protagonists, Zdeněk Neubauer claims that despite the fact we have reached the end of history and are now temporarily suspended in a state of anticipation, a new beginning may actually never come. This kingdom houses two main protagonists, Boris and Johana. At a time of uncertainty, they would like to create new foundations. Each in their own way, they look for an expression of love. They go through the list of important words that are projected onto the screen of our consciousness. In the end they reach the Sun.
A film about the ten most important words: kingdom (10), foundations (9), victory (8), gratitude (7), reconciliation (6), grace (5), forgiveness (4), wisdom (3), understanding (2), and a shining crown (1). The film is set in the contemporary reality of the Czech kingdom whose head – Václav Havel – just died. One of the protagonists, Zdeněk Neubauer claims that despite the fact we have reached the end of history and are now temporarily suspended in a state of anticipation, a new beginning may actually never come. This kingdom houses two main protagonists, Boris and Johana. At a time of uncertainty, they would like to create new foundations. Each in their own way, they look for an expression of love. They go through the list of important words that are projected onto the screen of our consciousness. In the end they reach the Sun.
Ondřej Vavrečka (1980) studied programming oriented high school, then Faculty of Humanities at Charles University, then Film Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts, all in Prague. Spent half a year as a volunteer in the centre for pelegrins Cité St. Pierre in Lourdes, France. Studied a semester in All-Russian Institute of Cinematography, Moscow. His major concern is inner and outer life and world. He works with words, sounds, and images. His works mainly do not have a structure of a definite form because the form itself is completed only when perceived by a free beings.
He works as an editor (Czech Television, Artycok.tv, independent documentary films (F. Remunda, R. Kirchhof), conceptual artists’ films (J. Mančuška) etc.) and cameraman (National film archive, documentary films (B. Jankovec) etc.). He is the author of his own feature-length documentaries. Besides it he is a musician and theatre actor in punk-poetic theatre as well.
Shorts:
Já + 5 x 30 m x 16 mm + BOLEX H 16 (I + 5 x 30 m x 16 + BOLEX H16) (2005, 15 min.)
Dobrý den, Paní L. (Good Morning, Mrs. L) (2005, 13 min.)
Bakalářský cyklus COAGULA (Bachelor Cycle COAGULA) (2007, 16 min.)
Medium-length films:
Sedm uší zvířetníku (Seven Ears of Zodiac) (in collaboration with V. Ježková) (2007, 37 min.)
Novosti dnya (2006, 50 min.)
Feature length films:
POČÁTEK A LEV (BEGINNING AND LION/ORIGIN ALEF) (2009, 124 min.)
ULTIMUM REFUGIUM
Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films - 2012