Petr Marek
Born in 1974, since the late 1980s he has made about thirty short and seven long films (the shortest 9 seconds, the longest 4 hours). Among the awarded films is the 8mm Všechno na Mars! (1997). The film Dříve, než.... (1997) is part of the National Film Archive's collection Czech Experimental Film and together with Film Petra (1995), was screened as part of the recent Czech Season in Paris. Together with Vít Janeček, Petr Marek made a documentary essay about the Karlovy Vary Film Festival
In 2001, he participated as a second cameraman in Jan Němec's film Noční hovory s matkou (2001) and collaborated with Jan Gogola Jr. on the film Národ sobě aneb České moře v 18 přílivech (2003). In 2002, Cinemart released his feature debut Láska shora in Czech distribution, co-produced by NEGATIV s. r. o. and UNARFILM, which was met with heated reactions on both sides. In 1999, he graduated from the Department of Film Science at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague with a diploma thesis entitled Mechanics of the Memory of the Film Medium (and Memory in Film). His theoretical works appear in the magazines Film a doba, Cinepur, Iluminace, Kino/Ikon, Lidové noviny, Tamto, Týden.
Since 1991, he has been an actor at the Dekadentní divadlo Beruška. He is also the author of many film soundtracks, he won the Czech Lion for the soundtrack of Protector (2009). Since 2006, he has also been the frontman of music band Midi Lidi. He worked as a film dramaturg at the Roxy in Prague, and is currently also a teacher at the Department of Directing at FAMU. His most recent feature film was Nothing Against Nothing (2011).
Born
Feb 05, 1974
Prostějov, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic)
Known For
Directing
Movies
6 acting
24 crew
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