Evald Schorm's melancholic documentary My Life to Live approaches the personality of Josef Sudek through his photographs and his own commentary on some of them. The camera observes the photographer in his studio environment, but also in the busy streets. It follows him into nature as he goes in search of more of his unique shots.
Photographer Josef Sudek is shown in his studio in Prague's Újezd district with his photographs. The artist talks about the circumstances of their creation and his relationship to them. During the film, busy places in Prague – lots of cars, trams, pedestrians – appear in short scenes. Sudek briefly flashes between them with his camera over his shoulder. Then he sets up a shot by a pond, his hand setting up his tripod and camera. In the studio he plays a gramophone record. With the camera on the tripod, he walks slowly through the sparse forest, looking for a shot.
The short film was released as an opener to the Soviet drama The Ship Sails to the Harbour.
fotograf
Praha
Žít svůj život
Žít svůj život
My Life to Live
Josef Sudek
film
documentarytheatrical distribution
art, biography
Czechoslovakia
1963
1963
projection approval 24 July 1963
premiere 20 September 1963 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 25 October 1963 /suitable for youths/ (kino Paříž /1 týden/, Praha)
no caption
short film
13 min
355 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, commentary
without subtitles
Czech
Exhibition: 5. dny krátkého filmu Karlovy Vary
1964
Karlovy Vary / Czechoslovakia
Evald Schorm
Event: Ceny Trilobit 1963
1964
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Jan Špáta