Chytilov á

[Jan Culik]

Quite a lot of thoughtful Czech commentators point out that this is in 
fact a metaphor and that Kopytem sem, kopytem tam is NOT about AIDS, but 
about the degeneration  of the Czechoslovak post-invasion society, 
twenty years after 1968.

JC

On 03/14/2014 11:52 PM, harlow wrote:
> Any remembrance of the amazing Chytilova (among the very few female directors in Central European cinema) must include her courage in making one of the first intelligent feature films about AIDS, "Kopytem sem, kopytem tam" (1989).
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> Harlow Robinson
> Northeastern University
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> Thanks for the link, John.
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> Saying that the lead characters in Daisies "respond to the consumer-oriented society" assumes that there was consumer society under communism in the mid-1960s that at least remotely resembled the employment of the images of Western consumerism (hardly available under communism then) in the film, but that might be too much to cover. A more specific query, instead:
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> I wonder whether anyone might have reliable information about Chytilova's study of philosophy that so many sources seem to copy from each other. Here's a summary of what appears to be verifiable (my overview):
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> She began to study architecture in Brno, but dropped out in her sophomore year and followed her lover to Prague. She first worked as a chemistry lab assistant and earned money on the side as a model (not the same glamour job as today -- fashion was close to non-existent in the repressive 1950s, but still the closest to bohemia Prague had then) with the support of her photographer husband Karel Ludiwg. Her garment shoots helped her make contacts, and she became an extra in a movie released in 1951. She became a clapper loader (2nd assistant camera) at the Prague film studios on a film in 1953, 1st assistant director on a film released in 1957. She began to study feature film directing at the FAMU (Film Academy of Performing Arts) in 1957 and was an extra on a film released in 1960. She directed her first short and graduation film The Ceiling (Strop) in 1961 and graduated in 1962.
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> Martin
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> votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu
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