Jan Saudek - Trapped by His Passions, No Hope for Rescue
Documentary
100min
Director: Adolf Zika
Writer: Adolf Zika (screenplay)
Stars: Jan Saudek
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Czech photographer Adolf Zika's documentary "Jan Saudek - Trapped by His Passions, No Hope for Rescue" portrays how war, woman and a single window influenced world famous photographer Jan Saudek. Camera moves through various subjects like his vision on body while capturing them, whether he is keeping any taboos or not, the pornographic atmosphere in images.
Saudek treats human body in its ultimate freedom. By using abnormal images he opens a path for spectators to enter the beauty and not trying to create ugliness even in a single megapixel. In this documentary Zika asked Saudek whether he felt any passion for a male body which tempted him to touch the body as a woman's. Saudek's answer is "Hold on, it's not a beautiful male body that attracts me. The body doesn't need to be beautiful, meaning muscular and slim. We are led by the smell and in that sense".
Its the Velvet Revolution (1991) gave him absolute fame both in his country and rest of the world. Saudek says that what revolution gave him was the gradual loss of omnipresent fear. Since he was a jew who passed his childhood days during Second World War in Prague witnessed so many diabolic scenes. His family was hunted by Nazis, also he and his twin bother Kaja Saudek suffered a lot in concentration camps and faced the ferocity of Dr Mengele's experiments. Before Revolution he was working in Prague in a cellar unnoticed by secret police. This self confinement makes him to create images that he cant see through the single window in the cellar.
No comments:
Post a Comment