The Czech Republic Beyond Prague
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5 Pravidel / 5 Rules
5 PRAVIDEL
DOKUMENT O LIDECH, KTEŘÍ SI DOBROVOLNĚ HRAJÍ NA TOTALITU / DOKUMENT LAUREÁTA CZECH PRESS PHOTO 2015 V KATEGORII ONLINE FEATURE
Producent
Ivo Krátký, Petr Koza – Bio Art Production, s. r. o.
Základní informace k filmu
• žánr: celovečerní dokumentární film
• námět: Vavřinec Menšl, Radovan Slánský
• scénář a režie: Vavřinec Menšl
• dramaturg: Ondřej Kepka
• kamera: Tomáš Kobolka, Dalibor Fencl, Viktor Portel, Vojtěch Filčev
• střih: Petr Kozák
• hudba: Matouš Hekela
• zvuk: Radim Hladík jr.
• rok výroby: 2013
• délka: 80 min.
• země: Česká republika
• formát: DVD, DCP; barevný
• jazyk: česky
• přístupnost: od 12 let
• v kinech od 28. 3. 2013
Synopse
Režijní debut Vavřince Menšla 5 Pravidel je strhujícím celovečerním dokumentem o skupině zhruba padesáti osob různého stáří a profesí, která se dobrovolně účastní experimentální hry-larpu s názvem Systém. Live Action Role Play, zkráceně larp, nejčastěji pracuje s historickými či fantaskními náměty. Ve filmu 5 Pravidel však sledujeme herní linii, která se odehrává v imaginární nesvobodě totalitního státu. Systém v tomto státu manipuluje s osudy účastníků pomocí mechanismů, které jsou společné všem totalitním režimům, fašistickému Německu, normalizaci v Československu nebo režimu v současné Severní Koreji.
O autorovi
vavrinecmensl.com
Kontakt
Bio Art Production, s. r. o., bioartproduction.cz
5 RULES
DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DELIBERATELY PLAYS ON TOTALITARIANISM / DOCUMENTARY BY WINNER OF CZECH PRESS PHOTO 2015 – ONLINE FEATURE CATEGORY
Producer
Ivo Krátký, Petr Koza – Bio Art Production, s. r. o.
Basic film information
● genre: feature documentary
● story: Vavřinec Menšl, Radovan Slánský
● screenplay and directing: Vavřinec Menšl
● dramaturge: Ondřej Kepka
● camera: Tomáš Kobolka, Dalibor Fencl, Viktor Portel, Vojtěch Filčev
● editing: Petr Kozák
● music: Matouš Hekela
● audio: Radim Hladík jr.
● year of manufacture: 2013
● length: 80 min
● country: Czech Republic
● format: DVD, BRD, DCP; colored
● language: Czech
● accessibility: 12 years
● in cinemas from 28. 3. 2013
Synopsis
This directorial debut of Vavřinec Menšl 5 Rules is a riveting feature-length documentary about a group of about fifty people of different ages and professions who voluntarily participate in an experimental LARP game called System. Live Action Role Play - LARP frequently works with historical or fanciful topics. In the film 5 Rules, however, we follow the line of the game, which takes place in an imaginary oppression of a totalitarian state. The system in this country manipulates the fates of the participants through mechanisms that are common to all totalitarian regimes, fascist Germany, the normalization in Czechoslovakia or the current regime in North Korea.
About author
Vavřinec Menšl (1971)
Photographer, director, film lecturer, artistic director of the International Film Festival 3Kino. As a director, Vavřinec Menšl debuted by full-length documentary entitled 5 Rules. This movie was shown at both Czech and international festivals, for example in Czech Finále Plzeň, in Czech/Poland 21. Filmové babí léto (Hrčava-Jaworzynka), in Poland – Lubuskie Film Summer Łagów and Solanin Film Festiwal, in Slovakia – Cinematik Piešťany and Febiofest Bratislava and last in previous year in Hungary on Verzio Film Festival, where the film got a big success and caused really stimulating discussion. He also is a reporter-director of public affairs Reporters of CT (Reportéři ČT). His professional biography further include cooperation on journalistic program of Czech Television Half-darkness (Pološero) or collaborating on several projects. Menšl is also doing short travelogue reports for National Geographic. He is an author of the few successfull commercials. Currently, as a film lecturer, he is involved in experimental project Active Life (Aktivně do života) where he works with young people who have ADHD syndrome. During 2008–2009 he had created a set of portraits of about thirty persons within the project We Haven’t Given Up (My jsme to nevzdali). These photographs were exhibited at the outdoor panels from the Prague Castle through Kampa Island to Wenceslas Square and were exposed during the film event One World Festival (Jeden svět), too. Many photos he also took for a non-profit organization Isida Amanti and its against domestic violence campaign Isida Amenti Tour (Prague, Brno, Olomouc, Ostrava, Bratislava). His photographic themes are mostly architecture, fashion and design for domestic and international magazines such as National Geographic. His works have also been displayed in many galleries – most recently the Fragner Gallery in Prague and the Architecture Center in Vienna’s MuseumsQuarter. One of his most recent awards is the Czech Press Photo 2015 Online Feature category for a story about Bedřiška Synková, a woman whose face we could see on the Czechoslovak one crown coin.
Contact
Bio Art Production, s. r. o., bioartproduction.cz