Vít Klusák

Vít Klusák studied photography at the School of Graphic Design in Prague. He graduated from the Documentary Film Department at the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague where he works as lecturer since 2006. In his films, he systematically deals with the points of friction between creativity and society. He made three documentary music videos for Czech singers Jan Burian, Jan Budař and Lenka Dusilová. Together with Filip Remunda, he is author of the hypercomedy Czech Dream/Český sen. They also manage a film company Hypermakert Films s.r.o. Recently, Klusák and Remunda have finished their feature-length documentary Czech Peace/ Český mír depicting the turbulent events accompanying the planned American radar in Brdy. As cameraman, he has worked on the films by Martin Mareček, Vít Janeček and Erika Hníková. Klusák is not the son of Czech music composer and actor Jan Klusák but Czech jazz pianist and composer Emil Viklický (about whom he made the film Jazz War/Ocet - “a portrait without a model”.

Filmography:

Digestive (10´, ČR, 2000)
Ocet (Jazz War) (22´. ČR, 2001)
Návod rekonstrukce kopie skutečnosti (20´, ČR, 2001)
Vlast a Burian (30´, ČR, 2003)
Český sen/ Czech Dream - together with Filip Remunda (90´, ČR, 2004)
Přestávka (7´, ČR, 2006)
Vánoce v Bosně - together with Filip Remunda (28´, ČR, 2008)
Český mír/ Czech Peace - together with Filip Remunda (52´, ČR, 2010)
Vše pro dobro světa a Nošovic/ All for the Good of the World and Nosovice (82´, ČR, 2010)