Libuše takes a picture of her reflection in a mirror. It’s a situation that keeps repeating in her life for the last 50 years. She took raw photos in the late 70s in socialist Czechoslovakia, when she looked for people who've really touched life: visitors of semi-legal gay clubs, workers on night shifts, exotic Vietnamese and Cuban immigrants, flaneurs in the night streets of communist Prague. Nudity, sex, alcohol, but also boredom and the straitjacket of normalisation. She keeps a record of everyday struggle, identity exploration, corporeality, relationships, and emotions in her pics and journals until today. The evidence is tens of thousands of negatives, preserving the transformation of body and soul over decades. What is Libuše looking for beyond the mirror?

Cast / Libuše Jarcovjáková    Dop / Libuše Jarcovjáková , Radka Šišuláková    Editor / Alexander Kashcheev    Music / Oliver Torr , Prokop Korb / badfocus , Adam Matej / DJ GÄP    Sound / Alexander Kashcheev , Michaela Patríková    Story / Eva Dvořáková , Klára Tasovská    Writer / Klára Tasovská , Alexander Kashcheev

Completion date / February 2024
Release date / 03 October 2024

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