{"id":137109,"date":"2025-10-22T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137109\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:03:08","slug":"unconventional-documentary-about-czech-photographer-gets-us-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137109\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Unconventional’ Documentary About Czech Photographer Gets US Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

An intriguing new documentary film that is tipped to contend in this year\u2019s Oscars has just dropped its official United States trailer. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m Not Everything I Want to Be tells the story of photographer Libu\u0161e Jarcovj\u00e1kov\u00e1, who, after the Soviet invasion of Prague, \u201cstrives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is Czech filmmaker Kl\u00e1ra Tasovsk\u00e1\u2019s debut feature and is described as a \u201cformally inventive and deeply personal film.\u201d It was made in close collaboration with Jarcovj\u00e1kov\u00e1 and has access to her photographs and diary entries. I\u2019m Not Everything I Want to Be explores the photographer\u2019s search for identity and emotional journey, and results in a \u201cdeeply affective and inspiring work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Deadline reports<\/a> that the film has already won two awards at the Czech Lions awards ceremony, and also won prizes at the Torino Film Festival in Italy and the Festival du Nouveau Cin\u00e9ma in Montreal. <\/p>\n

\u201cThrough a dynamic montage of still images, layered sound design, contemporary music, and Jarcovj\u00e1kov\u00e1\u2019s own voice drawn from her diaries, the film delivers a wild, intimate, and deeply political cinematic experience,\u201d Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Film, the company distributing the film, tells Deadline. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to share it with audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Not Everything I Want to Be has been officially selected by the Czech Republic as its entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards. <\/p>\n

Jarcovj\u00e1kov\u00e1 photographed nightlife in Prague and West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, often focusing on minority groups. Her work is hedonistic and stands in contrast with the Soviet Union, which was institutionally homophobic. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am a photographer and a teacher of photography,\u201d Jarcovj\u00e1kov\u00e1 writes on her website. \u201cAs I pass through various landscapes, wondrous strange images emerge. What is strange is interesting, but what is most strange is most interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The director, Tasovsk\u00e1, says, \u201cLibu\u0161e Jarcovj\u00e1kov\u00e1\u2019s work has influenced generations of artists in the Czech Republic \u2014 to have the opportunity to bring her work to American audiences is sensational.\u201d <\/p>\n

The film will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intriguing new documentary film that is tipped to contend in this year\u2019s Oscars has just dropped its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[81495,365,362,363,364,25123,4506,366,2054,18,117,19,17,81496,7012,2639,81497],"class_list":{"0":"post-137109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-academyawards","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-berlin","14":"tag-communism","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-documentary","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-ironcurtain","22":"tag-oscars","23":"tag-prague","24":"tag-sovietunion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}