Things

Short documentary, 18 min
Distribution premiere (as a part of the 4 things film): 19th January 2006

Find, pick up, sort out, store, pile up, polish, stack, throw away, saw up, destroy, scrap.

Credits
Original Theme, Screenwriter, Director:
Marta Hrubá
Director of Photography:
Jan Baset Střítežský
Sound Engineer: Václav Flegl
Editor: Matouš Outrata
Production: Martin Zeljak,
Lenka Čintalanová, Marta Hrubá
Music Composed by: Pierre Bastien
Assistant Sound Engineer: David Pavlíček
Assistant Camera Operators: Karel Kaliban, Gašper Šnuderl, Michal Vojkůvka, Martin Preiss
Assistant Director: Jan Liška Fox
Poster and Desing: Mirek Tazz Vojáček
Pedagogical Supervision: Vladimír Skall, Tonička Janková, Petr Prokop
Filmed in a Studio FAMU Led by: Pavel Koutecký and Jan Špáta

© 2005 FAMU, Pepe Rafaj – Jacket Bros.

About the film
Things, a documentary by FAMU´s Marta Hrubá, is a light, witty, poetical essay about the human dilemma between accumulating and disposing of things.
The film´s two main characters are Mrs Voldřichová and Mrs Denská, elegant elderly ladies.
Both ladies live in their houses. While one clutters her rooms with old things attractive in their histories and old-time charms, the other systematically gets rid of everything that reminds her of the past.
Mrs Voldřichová has made her passion her living, too – she collects things, sorts them and tries to put them back into use. In spite of their age, her things live on as long as they are used.
Mrs Denská likes her place clean and tidy, she enjoys free space and distinguishes between things useless and still useful. The things she keeps are really valuable for her.
Director Marta Hrubá unveils the theme of collecting things and disposing of them, offering the viewer enough space for his thouhgts...
The combination of Jan Baset Střítežský´s sensitive and inspiring camerawork and Pierre Bastien´s simple but suggestive music forces the viewer – on returning home – to take a fresh new look at their rooms and at things both lying around and existing in memories only.

More information
:: Movie stills
:: Press Kit EN 300 dpi
:: Press Kit EN 150 dpi
:: Poster CZ/EN A4
:: Poster CZ/EN A3
:: Press Kit CZ 300 dpi
:: Press Kit CZ 150 dpi

Prices
   Maxim, FAMUFEST 2004
   Zlatý Ledňáček, Pilsen Final 2005


From announcementFinále Plzeň 2005. Film Things received the priceZlatý ledňáček
in a category short documentary up to 30 minutes:

Marta Hrubá

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Born: 19th February 1978
director, documentarist

Education
:: Stephen S. Wise Community High School,
   Los Angeles, CA, 1995, foreign exchange student
:: FAMU {Academy of Performing Arts}, Department of Documentary Directing,
   graduation June 2004
:: Exchange program Erasmus, University Paris 8
:: M. A., final project documentaries: Study on being ashamed and Things
:: Thesis: Czech Documentary films as a mirror of the Israeli Society

Work experience
:: Aviva Stanoff Design, New York, internship
:: Czech Television – POP 2001, participation in a monthly music magazine
:: GARP, Advertising Agency, participation in a commercial video
:: Pode Bal, artistic group, making a video
:: People in Need Foundation, Summer 1995, voluntary work

Filmography
:: From a seed to an ear of grain, FAMU, 1997
:: Our timber house, FAMU, 1998
:: Best friends, FAMU, 1998
:: Field research, FAMU, 1999
:: She, B. A. project film, FAMU, 2000
:: Baruch haba, short film about the Program of Ronald S. Lauder
   Kindergarten in Prague, 2001
:: Looking for Luke Holland, portrait for the One World Festival, 2001
:: Things, final project film, FAMU, 2005

Festivals and awards
:: Our timber house, 1999 :: The FAMU Film Festival :: Honourable Mention
:: Field research, 2000 :: The FAMU Film Festival :: 4th place 2000
:: The Pilsen Film Festival :: Finals :: She, 2001 :: The FAMU Film Festival
:: The Foundation for the Support of Cinematography Award, 2002
:: Terezin Fort Film Festival :: Things, 2004
:: The FAMU Film Festival :: 1st Prize (Maxim) – Best Documentary

Languages and other skills
:: Czech (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (read and written)
   and Hebrew (working proficiency)

Other interests
:: Literature, theatre, photography, politics, swimming