Vladimir Franz part 2 of 2

I was doing a series of alternative portraits of people who cast themselves out of accepted society by transforming their appearance in some sort of extreme way with tattoos, piercings and disfigurement. I wanted to go one-step further. I wanted to capture various personalities who changed their appearance and then were accepted back into society because of their unique talent, ambitions and creativity. I came across Vladimir Franz in Prague. I would see him on the street and wonder who this person was. I later found out that Vladimir is a prominent Czech music composer, painter, stage music author and a leading personality of Czech post-modern drama. I was intrigued and wanted to know more. I filmed this clip with David Smith. We capture Vladimir preparing a music composition and conducting a small orchestra in a Brno music studio. We then go to his country cottage where he has his painting studio.

Coproduced by Robert Carrithers and Dave Smith
Directed by Robert Carrithers and Dave Smith
Editor: Kamil Přihoda
Length: 12:34 minutes
This is in Czech and we are in the process of putting together English subtitles.
To find out more about Vladimir Franz please go to his webpage at: http://franz.wz.cz/franzeng/

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• Vladimir Franz
• Dave Smith
• post modern drama
• post-modern music
• tattoo
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