Film Archive

I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

Special Screenings 2024 / Ještě nejsem, kým chci být / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Austria 2024

Synopsis

This year’s notional award for excellence on the domestic film front should unquestionably go to the unique documentary on the internationally renowned photographic legend Libuše Jarcovjáková, a work which enchanted just about everyone at the 2024 Berlinale. This remarkable project by Klára Tasovská and her team looks back over the past fifty years at the life of a true icon, known as the Czech Nan Goldin, and this via a fascinating montage of several thousand of her photographs and her diary entries, which she reads out herself. Portraits, self-portraits, immortalised moments, the quest for truth lying deep within nameless fellow opponents of grim Normalisation, reflections of the transformation of body and soul, black-and-white images, emotion and life in flashes of brilliant light.

Karel Och

About the film

91 min / Color, Black & White, DCP

Director Klára Tasovská / Screenplay Klára Tasovská, Alexander Kashcheev / Dir. of Photography Libuše Jarcovjáková / Music Oliver Torr, Prokop Korb, Adam Matej / Sound Alexander Kashcheev, Michaela Patríková / Editor Alexander Kashcheev / Producer Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská / Production Somatic Films / Coproduction nutprodukcia, Mischief Films, ARTE G.E.I.E., Česká televize / Sales Square Eyes / Distributor Aerofilms

About the director

Klára Tasovská (1980, Třebíč, Czechoslovakia). Selected filmography: Fortress (Pevnost, 2012, doc., co-dir.), Gottland (2014, doc., co-dir.), Nothing Like Before (Nic jako dřív, 2017, doc., co-dir.), I’m Not Everything I Want to Be (Ještě nejsem, kým chci být, 2024, doc.).