Project Type: Ethnography

  • Gáj

    An ethnographic film on the seeds of Czechness in distant lands 2009, 37 min. “Tata i mama jsou Češi. Co se stydíš. Nestyď se…” Synopsis Ninety years ago, the Frič family longed for change. They left Gerník, the harsh life of the mountainous Banat, the southern spur of the Romanian Carpathians, and descended into the…

  • Ashéninka

    A short film series on traditional knowledge of Ashéninka 2012, 6x app. 10 min. “Every time a medicine man dies, it is like a library burning down.“ Collecting-Processing-Use: Traditional Knowledge on Rainforest Plant Resources through Eye of Visual Anthropology The main objective of the MA study was to examine the potential of Visual Anthropology in…

  • 17

    A short film on coming of age 2013, 12 min. Synopsis Dominika lives with her grandmother in the small Czech town of Žlutice. We meet her at a family party on the day she turns seventeen. The next day, while she prepares for the usual Saturday trip to the disco, her grandma narrates the story…

  • Game of Life

    A short film and an audiovisual essay on walking the right path 2015, 28 min. + 36 min. “Sasha: This is my game time.” Game of Life The world of online games or stress in the gym? A twelve-year boy tries to escape the possible consequences of cerebral palsy. Synopsis Young Sasha works hard to…

  • Memorial

    A three-shot portrait of a site in transition 2014, 10 min. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” Synopsis A short observational portrait of a place in decay and a space of transition – Tallinn memorial of chess player Paul Keres, Estonian sportsman of the century. Technical Specifications Film Crew Production School of Humanities…

  • Solaris

    A sensory ethnography of a hidden reality behind a postsocialist euphoria  2015, 25 min. “The world is flesh.“ Synopsis The film exposes the closing hours and nighttime heartbeat of Tallinn shopping mall – a place built to entertain and mirror the world. The ambiguity of the camera gaze and the immersive soundscape will confront a…

  • Save the Arches

    A short documentary film on urban activism 2016, 24 min. “Living together” The only public art piece in the post-soviet residential district is about to be destroyed. Can activists, politicians and private company find a solution? Synopsis „Save the Arches“ introduces Lasnaidee, the young generation of urban activists in Tallinn. The core of their struggle…

  • In the Devil’s Garden

    A sensory ethnography film on being trapped bodies 2018, 25 min. “Everything in the world is an eater or eaten.” Synopsis The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of Arab…

  • Living Water

    A feature film on the environmental crisis in Jordan 2020, 77 min. “Making the desert bloom?“ LIVING WATER is an atmospheric journey into the clash between the state of Jordan, agricultural businesses and Wadi Rum indigenous communities over the last abundant source of drinking water. Synopsis The vibration of machines echoes across the desert. Ever…

  • Tiger Girls

    A documentary film on performance and womanhood in collective sports in postproduction, 75 min. “In 15 years of coaching career, I have never seen anything like this.” Working synopsis The film tells the intimate story of four peculiar women who share a devotion to the fastest indoor sport: floorball. As the new season starts, the…