POSLEDNÍ ŠICHTA TOMÁŠE HISEMA

The viewer never sees Tomáš Hisem, but instead everything his eyes follow: endless pathways strutted with metal, the mine railway, the broken hoist. Sometimes his colleagues appear on screen, when Hisem gets their help and tries to get the machine running again. We hear the Silesian miner the entire time as he explains his work under ground, or when he goes off swearing. That the film team around Jindřich Andrš didn’t receive permission from the mine to film, turns out to be a strike of good fortune – such authentic images from the hard work underground are rare. CF