LACO KABOŠ
finished his studies at the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in 1980, in the same year he made his debut with the film Children Looking at Us. After the social documentary Starina and Carnival in Sebechleby in 1983, the communist government banned him from working on another project because of the critical view of his films. After the Velvet revolution, he worked as the chief dramaturg of the Studio VIDEO FILM - Short film in Slovak film production. In 1993, together with his wife, he founded his own production company MEDIA FILM in Slovakia, which focuses on cinematographic projects. He shot dozens of documentaries for television and cinema distribution - The Man Who Changed Shanghai, All My Children, Colors of Sand, The Band, Architect of Brutal Poetry. He is the recipient of the Crystal Wing Award, the Igric Award, the Slovak Film Critic Award, the FIPRESCI Journalist Award and other festival awards at home and abroad (more at www.mediafilm.sk).
He has been engaged in photography since early childhood. He exhibited his first photographs at the B-Club in Bratislava (1971-73). In the years 1998-2003 he specialized in speleophotography. He captured the most beautiful Slovak caves protected by UNESCO on large-format slides. He published a picture book about the Demänovská cave, The Mysterious Beauty of Silence. He has been working for magazine and advertising photography for several years. He has been photographing female nudes since 2000. He exhibited his extensive set of nudes Dance of Day and Night in Jihlava in the gallery of the Gustav Mahler House - and at the exhibition Woman, Eternal Inspiration in Beroun, in the gallery in Dutch House. He exhibited together with the sculptor Jiří Vydra. In 2020, he was captivated by screen printing. In Banská Bystrica, he presented his screen printing series ARCHETYPES for the first time in the Poetika cafe (2022). "The idea for the cycle came from my imagination and my dreams, but it wouldn't exist without nature. It created mysterious shapes that I easily finished..." He is currently working on his author's projects as an independent filmmaker and artist.
FROM THE FILMOGRAPHY
MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN SLOVAKIA, 2008
Modern Architecture in Slovakia shows the changes of modern architecture in the course of eventful decades of the 20th century, whereupon it reflects important historical moments about the birth of modern Slovakia. The artistic camera of Dodo Simoncic shows the architecture in a hitherto unprecedented form. The unique gimmicky long-form observational shots discover the beauty of architectonic works in the way that has not been used yet. This is the first documentary film in Slovakia filmed and finished in the HDTV technology.
IGRIC 2008 (Prize of the Slovak Film Union, Literary Fund and Union of Slovak TV Filmmakers), Slovak Republic
Annual prize of the magazine “Monuments and Museums“ 2009, Annual prize of the Review for Cultural Heritage, 2009, Slovak Republic
Professor Architect Martin Kusý Award, 2009, Award of Slovak Architects Association, Slovak Republic
The story of architect L. Hudec-the father of Asian skyscrapers in colonial Shanghai.
Prize of Film critics for the Best Slovak Documentary, Slovakia
Special Creative Prize for film and television documentary production – to the director, awarded the prize of the Slovak Literary Fund, Slovakia
Documentary Edge Festival 2012, New Zealand
IFF Cinematic, Piestany, Slovakia
The director awarded the Mayor of Banska Bystrica Award, 2010, Slovakia
The director nominated for Crystal Wing Award – Person of Slovakia of the year 2010, Slovakia
Cinema distribution in the Slovak Republic
Dramatic tale of a pastor in the Roma settlements of Eastern Slovakia.
Nomination for the Silver Eye Award at East Silver, Jihlava, 2013
Nomination for the prize Roma Spirit, 2014, Slovakia
Nomination for the prize of the Tatra Bank Foundation, 2014, Slovakia
National nomination for the European Film Prize EFA (European Film Academy).
Special creative prize for film director, (IGRIC 2014), Slovak Republic
Slovak Film Critic award FIPRESCI 2015, Slovak Republic
Prize of Film Journalists FIPRESCI, Etnofilm, Čadca, Slovak Republic
Second prize, XXX. International Catholic Film Festival and Multimedia, Niepokalanów 2015, Poland
In 2014 this film scored the record number of cinema goers – approximately 25 500 viewers, and finished as the third most visited documentary in the history of Slovak cinematography (till 2014).
Screenings:
CineEast 2014, Luxembourg
54 IFF Krakow, Poland, 2014
One World 2014, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2014
Art Film Fest, Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia, 2014
Cinematik, 2014, Piestany, Slovakia
FEBIOFEST, Bratislava, 2014, Slovakia
Etnofilm, Cadca, 2014, Slovakia, Niepokalanow 2015, Poland
Finale Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2015
Kino na Granicy, Cieszyn, Poland, 2015
International conference (V4 and Romania), Bucharest, Romania, 2015
Czech Centre, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2015
MEDIAŞ CENTRAL EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL (MeCEFF) "7+1", Romania
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 2015
Week of Czech Film, Munich, Germany, 2015
Cran-Gevrier, France, 2015
All Lights India International Film Festival (ALIIFF), Kochi, India, 2015
Cinema distribution in the Czech and Slovak Republic
COLORS OF SAND, 2015
A Slovak nurse caught up in the war in Libya, and in the midst of the Muslim world.
Prize of the mayor, Cinematik 2015, Piestany, Slovak Republic,
National nomination for the European Film Prize EFA (European Film Academy), Slovak Republic,
Crystal Wing 2016 (together with the documentaries “The Man Who Changed Shanghai“ and “All My Children“), Slovak Republic.
Screenings:
Slovak Film Days, Munich, Germany
Arabisches Filmfestival Tübingen, Germany
Festival Meeting, Brno, Czech Republic
18th Festival Kino na Granicy, Poland
Cinema distribution in the Slovak Republic
The Band is a fragile story, filled with tragicomic twists, about a group of guys from a poor, Eastern Slovakian Roma Village, who decided to change their lives.
Screenings:
34th WARSAW FILM FESTIVAL, Warsaw, main competition, Poland
MINSK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LISTAPAD, Belarus
ONE WORLD Prague, 2019, competition, Czech Republic, 32th FINALE PLZEN 2019, Czech Republic
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DOCUMENTAIRE | Bruxelles / MILLENNIUM, 2019, official selection, Belgium
DOK-Fest München 2019, official selection, Germany
AROUND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Barcelona, Official Selection, Spain
VALLETTA FILM FESTIVAL, Small Nations Competition, Malta
FESTIVAL MUZIČKOG DOKUMENTARNOG FILMA, Dok’n’Ritam, BEOGRAD, Serbia
VUKOVAR FILM FESTIVAL, official selection, Vukovar, Croatia
COLOURS OF OSTRAVA, international, multi-genre music festival, 17.7. - 20.7.2019, Ostrava, Czech Republic
34th INDEPENDENT FilmFest, Osnabrück, 16-20 October 2019, Germany
THIS HUMAN WORLD, Wien, 28.11.2019 - 10.12.2019, Austria
FIPADOC, Biarritz, 2021, France
Festival du film documentaire & du livre, Albertville, 18.10.2021-24.10.2021, France
Grand Prix 4th Dok´n´ritam festival, Beograd, Srbia
Cinema distribution in the Czech and Slovak Republic
The story of architect Hans Broos a Carpathian German from Velka Lomnica in Slovakia who projected more than 140 buildings in Brazil.
Screenings:
CINEMATIK 2021, Piestany, Slovak Republic
THE ARCHITECTURE FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM (AFFR), Rotterdam, Holland
THE ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN FILM FESTIVAL (ADFF), Washington, USA, Vancouver Toronto, Canada
MASTER OF ART FILM FESTIVAL, 2022, Sofia, Bulgaria
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM SUR L'ART, Montreal, Canada
ON ART FESTIVAL, 2022, Warsaw, Poland
CAMP, 2022, Czech Republic
SLOVAK FILM DAYS, 2022, Munich, Germany
3KINOFEST, 2022, Praha, Czech Republic
THE ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, ART FILM FESTIVAL (ADAFF), 2023, Palm Springs, California, USA
DA2 FILM FESTIVAL, ZAGREB, CROATIA
Professor Architect Martin Kusý Award, 2023, Award of Slovak Architects Association and the Fine Arts Fund, Slovak Republic
Cinema distribution in the Slovak Republic
Ladislav Kabos
Na brehu mora