Michal Špitálský
Directing
Biography
Michal Špitálský is a Czech filmmaker and graphic designer, with a focus on documentary filmmaking and experimental cinema. He got into filmmaking when he shot his first feature film at twelve years old, which he proudly admits was "incredibly bad to an unreal degree". His works focus mainly on stories delving deep into human emotions and existential questions, with slight overlap between conventional and experimental methods.
Known For
While on a date, Sarah has a fight with her boyfriend which ultimately ends in a break-up. Driven emotional, Sarah decides to try her luck with another guy at the bar unaware that there is something bit more sinister behind his attention.
Attached
Follow the knight on his epic lifetime journey to find the one true love. He's willing to risk everything and follow any clue. But are the goals we are chasing truly worth it? Or do we spend whole life following something that is distracting us from real values? Are our emotions betraying us? Making us go after uncertain things instead of focusing on our own happiness.
Send me an Angel
An intimate portrait of an old man coming to terms with own mortality and letting go off his magnum opus - his garden. Living through an autumn of his life, he reminisces about his life filled with hard work, love for nature and onions.
Garden of Eden
RPM music is a small shop in the centre of Newcastle selling vinyl records. Founded by former students, the shop has become a place for people with love of music to come, browse, chat and share their stories. These are some of them.
Off the Record
An AI takes millions of inputs and rehashes them into something semi-new. The same thing human brain does when sleeping. Humans call it "dreams".
Somnio Ergo Sum
In a cyberpunk metropolis ruled by corporate surveillance, Nov leads a double life: a compliant data worker by day and an anti-establishment hacker by night. Tormented by the death of her sister and driven by revenge, she discovers a way to enter cyberspace through R.E.M sleep, bending digital realm at the cost of her sanity. As her grip on the real world blurs, Nov confronts memory, identity, and the ghostly spectres of a world lost to technology. Dreamer is a stylized, hauntology-infused vision that follows in the steps of classic cyberpunk through analog aesthetics and philosophical background.
Dreamer
Charlotte works as little Theo's nanny. Jennifer's never home, so the help is a blessing. At least, until her husband notice that their employee is quite pretty. And it is just a matter of time until the wife will notice it as well.