Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek

Nascimento : 1935-05-13, Prague, Czechoslovakia

História

Jan Saudek is a Czech art photographer, painter and actor. He and his twin brother Karel "Kája" Saudek are holocaust survivors. Jan Saudek’s art work represents a unique technique combining photography and painting. In his country of origin, Czechoslovakia, Jan was considered as a disturbed artist and oppressed by authorities.

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Jan Saudek

Filmes

Fotógrafo
Himself
A história é livremente inspirada pela vida e obra de Jan Saudek, que é provavelmente o mais internacionalmente conhecido fotógrafo checo e tem inquestionavelmente estado envolvido no desenvolvimento da fotografia internacional. Ele expôs e vendeu o seu trabalho nas maiores galerias e casas de arte, ele ganhou reconhecimento internacional e prémios, ele goza de grande popularidade e interesse - ele é um verdadeiro fenómeno.
Fotógrafo
Writer
A história é livremente inspirada pela vida e obra de Jan Saudek, que é provavelmente o mais internacionalmente conhecido fotógrafo checo e tem inquestionavelmente estado envolvido no desenvolvimento da fotografia internacional. Ele expôs e vendeu o seu trabalho nas maiores galerias e casas de arte, ele ganhou reconhecimento internacional e prémios, ele goza de grande popularidade e interesse - ele é um verdadeiro fenómeno.
Jan Saudek - Trapped By His Passions No Hope For Rescue
Himself
Jan Saudek, o fotógrafo vivo mais famoso da República Tcheca é o tema dessa biografia caleidoscópia e muitas vezes chocante feita por seu amigo e colega Adolf Zika.
Le corps sublime
Fiction-documentary about the short life of the photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) who used to photograph herself, mostly naked in strange places, until she committed sucide. American photographer Francesca Woodman is best known for black-and-white pictures of herself and of female models, which still draws new fans. Many of her photographs show young women nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or with their faces obscured. Years after her suicide at the age of 22, her photographic works became the subject of much attention, including many exhibitions and books.
Národ sobě aneb České moře v 18 přílivech
Photographer
"Situation of the Street" - An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who frequent it.
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.
Moravian Hellas
Twin B
Karel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism. The Strážnice folk festival, backed by the cultural Party apparatus of the time, for years had little to commend itself to authentic folklore. In the film the event assumes the form of a bizarre stage spectacle with almost surrealistic elements that Vachek reinforces with unconventional approaches (commentary appearing as titles on screen, singing, declamations into the camera, feature etudes, the fusion of news coverage and fiction). The result is a stirring film collage depicting various characters, from crowd-pleasers, Easter egg decorators, kitsch artists and peddlers, to museologists and local residents, all of whom come up against the eccentric "identical” twin reporters Karel and Jan Saudek and a bored actress who appears as an extra. Using their special blend of irony and wit, they present us with the sad truth.