Skip to main content
Czech Society of Cinematographers: meaning and future
90′
guests: Stanislav Adam, Pavel Berkovič, Radka Šišuláková
The Czech Society of Cinematographers underwent a significant generational change last season, but the work of cinematography is constantly evolving—the demands, expectations, commissioners (production companies), and broadcasters (distributors). How we perceive, use, and need the camera and the cinematography profession is changing. What now? In particular, what now, in an age when it is almost impossible to escape from audiovisual content, in an age when, to put it cynically, “the horrors of war enjoyed in the warmth of our homes,” in an age of shaky second and minute films, in an age when the role of television as producer and distributor is transforming, and when “regular cinema” awaits the fate of “classical art” consumed by the upper middle classes in spaces similar to museums and historical halls? Or it’s not like that, and won’t be? What’s the meaning and future for the professional cinematography collective, and for the camera in general, and for the profession: the camerawoman and the profession: the cameraman?