The pre-credit Kurt Vonnegut quote comparing risk-taking artists to the canaries prized by coal miners for their sensitivity to danger sets the stage for „My Detox,“ a fictionalized telling of helmer Viktor Taus‘ heroin addiction and recovery that has enough going for it outside the drug-taking activity to fit fests nicely as a slice of contempo Czech culture.
(Variety)

Awards, festivals:

Reviewed at Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Czech Films 1999-2000), – Official selection, World Premiere

Credits:

Producer:A GagStones/Milk & Honey Films/Czech Television/Space Films production. (International sales: Milk and Honey Films, Prague.) Produced by Tomas Krejci, Directed by Victor Taus. Screenplay, Boris Hybner, Photography: David Calek,, editor, Alois Fisarek, music, Oskar Rozsa,   92 MIN.

The „story“ of Rychle pohyby oci – named after the phase of sleep in which dreaming occurs – concerns a teenaged musician named Poppy and the world he lives in. The structure of the film mirrors the form and content of his dreams, or rather his nightmares, which centre on his relationship with a girl called Akja and his preoccupations with violent death. While the film lacks any coherent form of plot in the traditional sense of the term, there are plenty of opportunities for Spacek to experiment with colour, light and sound as he enters Poppy’s mind.
(Central Europe Review)

Awards, festivals:

Reviewed at Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Czech Films 1999-2000) – Official selection, World Premiere

Credits:

Producer: FAMU film academy/Czech Television/, Directed by Radim Spacek. Screenplay Radim Spacek, Photography David Calek, Editor Lucie Haladova, Sound Designer Martin Vrzal,   70 min, C1999

2010, prod. UFO pictures, director: Alice Nellis, D.O.P.: DČ, 110 min

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