I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

Director: Klára Tasovská

2024 / 90min / DCP

Oft referred to as the Nan Goldin of Czechoslovakia, photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková was a chronicler of after-dark Prague in the 1970s and ’80s whose images of let-it-all-hang-out gay clubs, factory hands working the third shift, and clandestine parties give a picture of communist-era Czechoslovakia very different from the official one circulated outside the country. The subject of Tasovská’s compelling documentary—the Czech entry for the 98th Academy Awards— Jarcovjáková is given a platform to tell her story: that of one woman’s tireless search for liberation in an era of state repression. A candid and revelatory work of stripped-down nonfiction filmmaking, which achieves extraordinary emotional effects with nothing more than its subject’s voice and the indelible images she produced.

Distributor: Grasshopper Film

Organized in collaboration with the Czech Center New York

Q&A with director Klára Tasovská, producer Lukáš Kokeš, and photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, moderated by filmmaker and programmer Ruth Somalo on Friday, November 7th

Q&A with director Klára Tasovská, producer Lukáš Kokeš, and photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, moderated by filmmaker and arts advocate Tabitha Jackson on Saturday, November 8th

Q&A with director Klára Tasovská, producer Lukáš Kokeš, and photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, moderated by film programmer Irena Kovarova on Sunday November 9th