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adela.kalna@famu.czMentor, teacher, cinematographer
At the Cinematography Department, Michael Gahut teaches Camera Technique Seminars at our program for international students. They are taught how to use various types of camera and also receive a theoretical basis for work with the camera as a tool for film language.
A professional filmmaker since the mid-seventies, Michael Gahut works as a Director of Photography on feature films, TV dramas, and documentaries, and also as a Director and Cinematographer for TV commercials. A FAMU graduate, Michael Gahut has been a professor at the school since the eighties, and in recent years has served as mentor and course director for APP and CDM programs and for FAMU exchange programs NYU and Emerson College.
Cinematographic work (selection):
2014 – Director of Photography in documentary Olga (dir. Miroslav Janek)
2012 – Director of Photography in The Labirynth (dir. Tomáš Houška)
2012 – Director of Photography in My Naked Diary (dir. Martin Dolenský)
1994 – Director of Photography in short documentary And There Is One Chair Too Many (dir. Vladimír Merta)
1982 – Director of Photography in short animated film The Vanished World of Gloves (dir. Jiří Barta)