Camera tortura

synopsis

The director, a young man in his thirties going through a life crisis, approaches his estranged parents to help him paint his apartment. Conversations accompanied by a paint roller and paint thinner open up old wrongs while revealing the complexity of interpersonal relationships. The absence of communication, or the lack of will to communicate, as a symptom of contemporary family ties, stands in contrast to caring for a family of pigeons that has made its nest on the director's balcony. The film, in its civility and authenticity, follows the lessons of a book dedicated to amateur filmmakers and thus enters into a subversive dialogue with the paradigms of film pedagogy. How can we live today, how can we create?

“A family portrait of a diary-like, commemorative nature is a very good lesson for a beginner.”

Source: Camera tortura and the book KUČERA, Jan: Filmová tvorba amatéra

biography

Petr Michal (1986) graduated in documentary filmmaking from FAMU and has collaborated with Memory of Nations. His feature debut about the translator Anna Karenina, Found by the One She Seeks (2022), was nominated in the Czech Joy section at Ji.hlava IDFF and won at FAMUfest 2023.

more about film

director:	Petr Michal
producer:	Adam Ligas, Tomáš Šimon
script:	Petr Michal
photography:	Petr Michal
editing:	Jakub Podmanický, Petr Michal
sound:	Matěj Lindner

contact

Alexandra Hroncová / FAMU
alexandra.hroncova@famu.cz