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ALULA
our short Alula was selected to 65th Oberhausen IFF
Waiting for her parents to pick her up, a bored young girl lets her imagination drift her away to the dark side.
Directed by Kaveh Daneshmand
INSECTS
new feature film by the famous Czech director Jan Švankmajer has recently arrived to cinemas.
Exclusive digital to 35mm color intermediate transfer of the film recording developed by i/o post in collaboration with the Czech TV laboratories.
Insects is a surreal comedy film directed by Jan Švankmajer, the film is based on the play Pictures from the Insects’ Life by Karel and Josef Čapek. Švankmajer says that the film will be his last. It premiered on 26 January 2018 at International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film follows amateur actors rehearsing Pictures from the Insects’ Life. The actors find themselves living out their characters’ roles and hallucinating insects. Insects is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and interviews with the actors about their dreams.
The most nominations at the 25th Czech Lion Awards obtained by the film Ice Mother
Ice Mother, produced by Negativ ( Pavel Strnad and Petr Oukropec), is the winner of the best film feature prize at the 2018 Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) awards. Additionally, it got 5 more awards – for the best director (Bohdan Sláma), the best actress in leading role (Zuzana Kronerová), the best actor in leading role (Pavel Nový), the best actress in supporting role (Petra Špalková) and also for the best original screenplay (Bohdan Sláma). Little Crusader, directed by Václav Kadrnka, the film feature winner at IFF Karlovy Vary in 2017 got the prize in the category for the best film score and was nominated in 9 more categories. Co-production and complete visual postproduction of both films by i/o post. Congratulations to the winners!
STORY OF MY DEATH by ALBERT SERRA
It was an honour and a great pleasure to work with Albert Serra on his masterpiece awarded the Pardo di Oro / Golden Leopard at the 66th Locarno IFF. We provided colour correction, VFX, DCP mastering and 35mm film recording and you definitely should not miss this remarkable gem where Casanova meets Dracula.
Casanova is acquainted with his new manservant, who will bear witness to his final days of life. Leaving a French château with its typical 18th century licentious atmosphere, he spends his final days in impoverished, dismal northern Europe. There, his frivolous, high society world crumbles, as well as his Enlightenment rationalism, when faced with the new, violent, esoteric and romantic force of Dracula and his eternal power.
Albert Serra enters the eighteenth century with a drama—carnal, whimsical, tremulous, intimate, philosophical—that’s set partly in Switzerland and partly in Transylvania. The setup could be described as “Casanova meets Dracula”—or, sceptical, empirical modernity, the cult of calculated, maximized pleasure meets the cult of pain and mystique, of the irrepressible and inextricable atavistic and pre-rational forces.