A neon heart installed above Prague Castle illuminated the city for the last three months of Václav Havel’s presidency in an artist’s tribute to his extraordinary service. His last major undertaking was hosting the NATO summit in 2002 and Němec was granted extraordinary access to film it. Set to make a “special poetic film”, it took Němec years to process what he had witnessed – George W. Bush creating an alliance to invade Iraq. It may then be the director’s revenge to point his camera lens democratically at everyone involved with the summit, giving the same screen time to kitchen and waiting staff, musicians, security detail and NATO protesters, as to the heads of states and attending dignitaries. Havel however, became as much of a subject as the president on screen, and the film’s narrator, providing commentary in his own voice from the distance of a few years after he left the office.
Heart Above the Castle
November 12, 2008
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Jan Němec
Director
Iva Ruszeláková
Producer
Ivo Špalj
Sound Mixer
Michal Pavlíček
Music
Jan Němec
Camera Operator
Petr Marek
Camera Operator
Karel Slach
Camera Operator
Jiří Maxa
Camera Operator
Karel Cudlín
Camera Operator
Šimon Špidla
Editor