Road to Disfantasy

Martin Dušek / Czech Republic / 2024 / World Premiere / 52 min.

synopsis

A documentary film by Martin Dušek on the topic of taste as it manifests itself in our settlements, dwellings and how we are changing the cultural landscape of the Czech Republic. The documentary is structured as a travelogue through the Czech Republic with stops and documentary situations, supplemented by testimonies of local people, well-known personalities of design, architecture, experts on social geography and history. Each place will have its own theme that defines the situation of Czech taste (the role of tradition, money, the state of crafts, the role of chains with their unified products).

biography

Born in Česká Lípa. Graduated in television journalism at the Faculty of Television and Television at the FAMU in Prague, where he studied documentary filmmaking. He made his debut together with Ondřej Provazník with the feature documentary Poustevna, das ist Paradies! (2007), which was awarded at the Jihlava IDFF as the best documentary of 2007 and then nominated by the Czech Film and Television Academy for the European Film Award 2009. A selection from the filmography: Women of S.H.R. (TV documentary, 2010, with Ondřej Provazník), Rozzlení (TV documentary, 2013), K oblakům vzhlížíme (2014). Staříci (2019) is his feature debut, co-written with Ondřej Provazník.