A breathtakingly precise tour de force of the everyday life in late Czechoslovakia that Chytilová knew oh so intimately, Calamity also marks her first collaboration with the mime/playwright Bolek Polívka, who would go on to star in many of her films.
Doclisboa wants to question the present of film, bringing along its history and assuming cinema as a mode of freedom. By refusing the categorization of film practice, it searches for the new problematics that cinematic image implies, in its multiple ways of engagement with the contemporary.
Doclisboa tries to be a place to imagine reality through new modes of perception, reflection, and possible new forms of action.
