Hemenex
How many eggs do you need to crack open for ham and eggs to sate one member of the band Midi Lidi? How many Argus beers do you have to drink in order to smooth over an argument? And can you hitchhike your way to being the front man of a band? Absurdity, outsiderism, and humor so subtly layered that you might not see it right away.
- Czech Republic
- 2020, 12 min
- Director: Petr Marek
- Director of photography: Markéta Lisá, Petr Marek
- Editor: Petr Marek
- Screenplay: Petr Marek
- Music: Midi Lidi
- Cast: Zdeněk Hudeček, Kilián Hrdina, Prokop Holoubek, Marian Moštík, Tomáš Kelar, Markéta Lisá, Ladislav Mirvald, Petr Marek
- Art Director: Petr Marek
Petr Marek
Petr Marek studied film at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts. He writes for film magazines, teaches at FAMU’s Department of Directing, and also works in theater. Since the late 1980s, he has shot around thirty short and seven feature films with UNARFILM, most of them in collaboration with J. K. Nebeský. He also worked as second cinematographer on Jan Němec’s Late Night Talks with Mother (2001–2002) and appeared in Jan Gogola’s Situation of the Street, or The Czech Sea in Eighteen Tidal Waves (2003). His romantic comedy Love from Above (2002) was shown in Czech theaters, and Not of Today (2005) was released on DVD. Before… (1997) is in the National Film Archive’s collection of Czech experimental films. He shot a documentary essay about the Karlovy Vary film festival, At the Center of Film (In the Warmth of Home) (1997, with Vít Janeček), and has directed the films Bajesta Gumbrina (1994), Petr’s Film (1996), and Everything to Mars (1997).