This Is Not Me: An intimate portrait of an attempted comeback
Screening in the Documentary Competition of the 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, This Is Not Me is the latest work helmed by controversial Slovakian documentarian Miro Remo, who, over a span of three years, followed famous Slovakian singer Richard Müller in order to document his daily struggles as he tried to revive his career. With over 300 hours of new and home-video footage shot by Müller himself to choose from, Remo dissects the singer’s past and present in an up-close and personal portrait of the most successful star of the Czech and Slovak...
COMEBACK - The director reflects back on the first days of shooting his recently released documentary
More than five years ago, I was tempted to make a feature-length film. It was right after the positive reception of my short student film Arsy-Versy. Riding the wave of enthusiasm, I was looking for a theme. In the end, the theme has found me by some kind of coincidence. Once I had shot a short spot about equal opportunities (within an integration project of the European Union) for a French production company in jail. After it was finished, the prison director suggested that I can get back to Ilava with my own project. Years later, I called him, asking if his...
Film-making Q&A With Miro Remo
For Miro Remo, the love for filmmaking runs in the blood. He is a Slovak filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California whose 3 student films were shown in many festivals around the world. His latest film, Arsy-Versy, is the most successful film in the University of Performing Arts in Bratislava, earning 34 international and domestic awards! And if that's not cool enough, he used a LomoKino camera for the band Swan Bride's music video.
FACE TO FACE WITH MIRO REMO - JAILS ARE FULL OF "SMALL FRIES"
There’s no need to dwell on introducing Miro Remo. He’s the off spring of a country family full of amateur fi lmmakers who passed the trade on to him. He currently is both student and teacher at the same fi lm institute (VŠMU), and has already earned considerable success, the most prominent being Arsy-Versy with its countless prizes from countless festivals. For the last three years however he has been working on a “prison” project. Comeback follows the lives of three people – two (male) multiple off enders to be released after serving long sentences, and one...
MIRO REMO’S ‘ARSY VERSY’ NOW ONLINE
Here’s a heads up for anyone who missed Miro Remo’s wonderful Arsy Versy during its festival run; the film is now available online! I’ve embedded it at the top of this post and highly recommend you give it a watch if you’re a fan of quirky character studies. This was one of my favourite films of 2009 and a highlight of that year’s Hot Docs documentary film festival. Here’s the synopsis: