Jiří Lehovec

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Born January 3, 1909(1909-01-03)
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died December 11, 1995(1995-12-11) (aged 86)
Prague, Czech Republic

Dokumentary filmmaker, director and photographer.

Born 1909 in Prague. Since childhood he was interested in technology, photography and film. Attended high school [reálné gymnázium] in Vinohrady, Prague. After completion of four semesters of electrical engineering at the Technical University in Brno (1927-29) he moved to Prague to study history of art and aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University.

As a student he began writing criticism (1927) and reviews for the Student Magazine and got involved in the avant-garde groups and circles such as Devětsil, Filmklub, the Left Front, the Czech amateur photography club and SVU Mánes. He had a film column in Národní osvobození (1930). He quit writing in c1932.

In 1930, Lehovec began collaborating with Alexandr Hackenschmied and Ladislav Emil Berka, himself focusing on social photography. His photographs were first presented at two exhibitions in Prague, New Czech Photography [Nová česká fotografie] (1930, 1931).

In 1938 he moved from photography to film. Already in 1935 he created a scenic film for E.F. Burian's theatre performance May (second version of the film was made by Čeněk Zahradníček the following year).

Between 1965–1983 and 1990–1995 he taught documentary film at FAMU, Prague.[1]

Works

Divotvorné oko (Magic Eye)


Jiří Lehovec, 9 min, b&w, 275m, 1939. Download (WEBM)

Produced by AB. Photography: Miloše Hlávka and Miroslav Bárta.

A microscopic exploration of the unseen world surrounding us.

Něco podobného před nimi ještě nikdo neudělal – podívali se pěkně zblízka na běžné věci jako je rýžový kartáč, zvonek budíku, útroby kapesních hodinek, zdrhovadlo, bublinky v sodovce, starý gramofon – mimo jiné...

Rytmus (Rhythm)


Jiří Lehovec, 13 min, b&w, 375m, 1941. Download (WEBM)

Produced by FAB Zlin.

An attempt at visual representation of music. A hymn to the glories of Czech manufacturing expertise as a close-up lens is put through its paces. By today's standards the magnification may seem fairly run-of-the-mill, but it takes little to imagine the effect a spider's head or a dissolving sugar cube would have had on viewers of the time when blown up to cinema-screen size.

Film o vizuálním ztvárnění hudby. Lidé měli během jednoho představení možnost vidět hudební těleso nahrávající skladbu i spoře oděné divadelní tanečnice.

Filmography

Director
  • Rytmus, 1941.
  • Zachráněné štěstí, 1943.
  • Nevšední podívaná, 1944.
  • Přiznání, 1950.
  • Mykoin PH 510, 1963.
Documentary films
  • Divotvorné oko, 1939.
  • Miliony na dlažbách, 1939.
  • Každý na své místo, 1943.
  • Hudební jaro, 1952.
  • Barevný svět Otakara Nejedlého, 1954.
  • Příběh staré řeky, 1956.
  • Praha matka měst, 1958.
  • Zlatý sen, 1959.
  • Jiří Trnka, 1969.
  • Kouzelná svítilna, 1975.

See also

Literature

  • Antonín Navrátil, Jiří Lehovec, Prague: Čs. filmový ústav, 1984, 36 pp. (in Czech) [2]

External links