The Portrait of Irma Geisslová, Who Died Sad

synopsis

Irma Geisslová was a Czech poet and prose writer who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. The director of the film and its direct participants enter into an imaginary dialogue with this talented author of intimate poetry, now forgotten by literary history. The result is a portrait of a personality composed of private confessions of affection for her work.

“The film is thus an image of the meeting of voices, words and gestures, albeit often quite banal, which with living human presence inhabit the seemingly empty space left by the deceased author.” – Kateřina Konrádová

biography

Kateřina Konrádová (1996) studied Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies at Haverford College in the USA and is currently studying at the Department of Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU. Audiences at Ji.hlava have already had the opportunity to see her short film Gutwasser (2023), which focuses on a Sudeten house that has vanished.

more about film

director:	Kateřina Konrádová
producer:	Lukáš Procházka
script:	Kateřina Konrádová
photography:	Marie Smutná, Kateřina Konrádová
editing:	Kryštof Perry
sound:	Christian Robenek

contact

Marek Koutesh / FAMU
marek.koutesh@famu.cz