42° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES COMPETITION
I'M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE
by Klára Tasovská
Country: Czech Republic
Year: 2024
Duration: 90'
From the darkness come flashes of bright light followed by fragments of black-and-white images that appear in quick succession. An invitation to a prestigious photography exhibition means that seventy-year-old Libuše Jarcovjáková has to turn on her photo scanner. She has been waiting for such an invitation for the last 50 years. All that time she’s been trying to be a recognized photographer, but no one really cared. Now she has to choose photographs that represent her and her work. But what should she show the world? Who is she, really?
Biography
film director
Klára Tasovská
(Czech Republic) graduated from the New Media Department at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Documentary Film Department at FAMU in Prague. Her mid-length documentary essay Midnight (2010) was screened at several international film festivals (Ji.hlava IDFF – Special Jury Mention, Visions du Reél Nyon, EMAF Osnabrück – Newcomer Award, etc.). Her feature- length debut Fortress (2012), directed together with Lukáš Kokeš, was awarded Best Czech Documentary at Ji.hlava IDFF 2012. It also competed at CPH:DOX 2012 among other European festivals and was nominated for the LUX Prize 2013. Her film Nothing Like Before (2017), co-directed by Lukáš Kokeš, premiered at IDFA’s First Appearance Competition 2017. In 2024, she directs I’m Not Everything I Want to Be, which was presented in Berlin.
FILMOGRAFIA
Midnight (mm, 2010), Fortress (coregia Lukáš Kokeš, doc, 2012), Gottland (coregia Viera Cákanyová, Petr Hátle, Rozálie Kohutová, Lukáš Kokeš, Radovan Síbrt, doc, 2014), Nothing Like Before (coregia Lukáš Kokeš, doc, 2017), I’m Not Everything I Want to Be (doc, 2024).
Declaration
film director
“There is still a question today of how to be a woman and an artist or creator, to succeed in a world that is still male-dominated, to have a family and believe in acknowledgment that may never come, to be authentic in both work and life, and to discover who you really want to be in life. In the character of Libuše Jarcovjáková, I found a great protagonist who embodies all these questions. Although her story takes place from 1968 to the present, it is timeless and still highly relevant. Her search for islands of personal freedom, her decision not to have children, her sexuality and coming out, her escape to Berlin and unknown Tokyo… these story elements form the foundation for articulating themes that can inspire everyone.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Klára Tasovská. SCREENPLAY: Klára Tasovská, Alexander Kashcheev. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Libuše Jarcovjáková. EDITING: Alexander Kascheev. MUSIC: Oliver Torr, Prokob Korb (badfocus), Adam Matej, Michaela Patriková. PRODUCTION: Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská for Somatic Films.
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