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Auto*Mate

Auto*Mate

Auto*Mat , Czech Republic, 2009, 90 min, Digi Beta, DVD, Arts and Culture, Society
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"A playful film essay about our automobile-automatic society. A film crossing the border of its media, turning into a social act.Martin Mareček: “I lived in downtown Prague, in the ""heart of Europe"". In Prague, ""the mother of cities"", as well as ""the city of cars""... According to statistics, it is one of the most car-crippled cities in Europe. Six years ago, I met my neighbour in the hallway. He was moving: ""Well, we're off, we can't take this anymore."" I replied: ""Yeah, I understand, it's the cars, isn't it? The noise, the smell…"" The neighbour smiled, puzzled: ""Not really, it's cause we have nowhere to park."" Is the story absurd? Is my neighbour autistic? Not quite. I believe that most of us city folks are this automatic… We all suffer from it… Automatically we swear, automatically we drive. Slowly but surely, our game ends with our own auto-mate. Isn't there anything we can do about it? I realized that it is no longer sufficient to make a film. It would only turn into another short essay filled with automated clichés, targetting the usual audience. Another submission into the intellectual fish tank. Therefore, I have gradually turned from a film director into an activist, an artistic radical and a political lobbyist. The multilayered organism AUTO*MATE was conceived.”

Director:
Martin Mareček
Producer:
Vratislav Šlajer
Original idea:
Martin Mareček
Executive producer:
Martin Mareček
Editor:
Vít Klusák, Martin Mareček
Director of photography:
Jiří Málek
Music:
Ondřej Anděra, Martin Mareček, Tereza Marečková
Sound:
Michal Gábor, Ondřej Ježek
Languages:
Czech
Subtitles:
English
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Bionaut Films Dělnická 47
170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic
Phone:
+420 222 967 358
Fax:
+420 222 967 357
WWW:
www.bionaut.cz
Email:
bionaut@bionaut.cz
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Bunns Lane
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info@taskovskifilms.com
Doc Launch 2005 Docu Talents from the East 2005 East Silver 2009East Silver Caravan Silver Eye Nominees
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival - In Competition, Japan
Audience award 2009 - 13th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
One World FF 2010, Czech Republic
Visions du Reel , Switzerland
Students Jury Award - CINEMABIENTE, Italy
IDFF Jihlava 2009
DOK Leipzig, Germany
CPH Dox, Denmark
- refundable financial support: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2004)
- specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2005 - distribution)

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