Rob comments on Twelve
06.04.2010
Rob Trnka's camera takes the past month of Michal Prokop, just as he has actually spent it. Without any adornments and planning. It doesn't aim to celebrate the leading actor; it wants to capture by its sincereness. TWELVE doesn't create dramatic situations, but it catches them if they arise.
In first days of the following month you can always find out what were the last four weeks of Michal Prokop. Interesting? Boring? Tiring? Cheerful? Successful...? As every real calendar also TWELVE starts in January. Tons of iron, hours in fitness centre and snow and freeze all around. This way Michal's year 2010 started, a season dedicated to four-cross, in which BMX already starts to come through strongly, with qualification for 2012 Olympic Games.
"When working on the calendar I understood that Michal doesn't have to make somebody else of him or to create another - media - face. This helped me a lot in making decision how TWELVE should look like. Anyway, in Michal's case his spontaneity doesn't look affectedly ... When preparing scenarios I only need to know where he will appear. I try to record things for which there is no place or time anywhere else - time when the camera is switched off. No sensations, but moments, which may look trivially alone, but which will make sense when put together with Honza Mocnak. For me, it will be important when somebody will switch the result of my work on more than once," comments his work on TWELVE the photographer, and this time also the cameraman and screenwriter, Rob Trnka.
Episodes of TWELVE can be found at www.redbull.cz
In first days of the following month you can always find out what were the last four weeks of Michal Prokop. Interesting? Boring? Tiring? Cheerful? Successful...? As every real calendar also TWELVE starts in January. Tons of iron, hours in fitness centre and snow and freeze all around. This way Michal's year 2010 started, a season dedicated to four-cross, in which BMX already starts to come through strongly, with qualification for 2012 Olympic Games.
"When working on the calendar I understood that Michal doesn't have to make somebody else of him or to create another - media - face. This helped me a lot in making decision how TWELVE should look like. Anyway, in Michal's case his spontaneity doesn't look affectedly ... When preparing scenarios I only need to know where he will appear. I try to record things for which there is no place or time anywhere else - time when the camera is switched off. No sensations, but moments, which may look trivially alone, but which will make sense when put together with Honza Mocnak. For me, it will be important when somebody will switch the result of my work on more than once," comments his work on TWELVE the photographer, and this time also the cameraman and screenwriter, Rob Trnka.
Episodes of TWELVE can be found at www.redbull.cz