The feature-length documentary about David Kopecký is heading to theaters

Prague - A feature-length documentary about the architect David Kopecký, who was among the radically experimenting creators, was made by his wife Bára Kopecká. The film simply titled DK is a very intimate testimony about strong visions, an obsession with work that often pushed aside ordinary life problems, and a desire to discover new and see things anew. The company Aerofilms will release the film in cinemas on November 7. David Kopecký passed away four years ago after a short, serious illness at the age of 46.
    He was born in 1963 in Prague and studied at the Emil Přikryl School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in the early 90s. He then lived in London, where he met Slovak architect Ján Studený. In 1995, they co-founded the architectural office ksa.
    They drew attention to themselves in 2000 when they completed an experimental house in Stupava, Slovakia. The prefabricated steel skeleton was covered with a façade of large glass blocks, developed for industrial buildings. The simple block of the house with a transparent façade was divided inside by a system of sliding walls, allowing the number and size of the rooms to be changed at will. Although the owner later changed the façade at his wife's request, the house in Stupava remains probably Kopecký's most famous and valued realization.
    The family house in Černošice also won awards, looking like a crystal standing on one of its points. This experimental building won five years ago in one of the categories of the Grand Prix of Architects; however, Kopecký himself did not participate in its creation.
    For the Czechoslovak pavilion in Venice, Kopecký and Studený prepared the Modular next project in 2002 - a concept for the housing of the future. They created a system of architecture without architects, a gradually growing structure consisting of apartment units that owners can design themselves from the outside and inside within the limits of the system.
    Director Bára Kopecká graduated from the editing department at FAMU, working as a dramaturg, screenwriter, editor, journalist, and film educator, teaching at the FAMU International department. Her documentary is mainly a collage of Kopecký's films, which he exhibited as video art, and memories from friends and colleagues. In making the film, she wanted, in her words, to explore who her husband actually was. Today, she sees his life mainly as a desire for an ideal from which Kopecký refused to compromise.