1941: Leo Kowal had sex. So he was sent to a concentration camp. He slept with a man – his colleague from the Slovak Nazi party. In a speculative narrative, a gay director enters into a paradoxical, one-sided dialogue with Leo, reimagining an identity split between fascist conviction and queer desire, reduced to Gestapo files […]
The documentary The Painter Who Created a Photographer explores the artistic and life partnership of painter Ester Šimerová and photographer Martin Martinček. It focuses on the moment when a former lawyer, shaped by personal and political trauma, becomes a photographer and develops his own artistic language. Through the dialogue of painting and photography, archival material […]
The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective. The collage of personal memories, staged scenes and archives of collective memory compares the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution and reveals the exposure, conflict, crisis, and catharsis of the post-communist society. Democracy can be […]
The World Economic Forum in 2014 described and statistically documented a number of key global issues that indicate a critical and disruptive social phenomena. Among them is the deteriorating position of representative democracy, consisting in the loss of confidence in elected representatives of the people and of the mechanisms and processes that precede the election. […]
The Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra is a mystical place. Here, three monks were freed from the trauma they had suffered in the past; this is where they find inner peace and a sense of purpose to life. Their stories are metaphors of transformation, enlightenment and spiritualisation against the backdrop of the raw Ukrainian reality. The […]
The Czech Way tells a story of Czechoslovak economic transformation of the 90s. This transformation took place in the period, when the Czech and Slovak nationhood were established, so it was presented as the key to the transformation of totalitarian society into a democratic one, and – on the other side, publicly understood mainly as […]
In a pastel world where a square spawns a crowd of identical silhouettes, one appears – the Different One. A different color, shape, and view. Suffocating among those who fear change, he opens a window to let in air and light. The crowd fights back, but he breaks free. Light fills the space, the others […]
A map of notes and diaries, when we searching for miracles of communication with the non-human.
This film essay maps the Slovak State (1939–1945), examining its ties to Nazi Germany, the “parish republic’s” failures, totalitarian laws, and the Holocaust. Through six thematic lines, it analyzes propaganda, the abuse of religion, artistic resistance, and daily life. The goal is to provide a non-academic, critical portrayal of a regime built on hatred that […]