PETR SALABA
PHOTOGRAPHER & DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTORAbout and Contact
+420 774 953 539 (GSM, Telegram, WhatsApp)
petr.salaba@gmail.com
TLDR:
I make documentary movies and I run workshops on generative AI.
You can hire me to do that for you.
Based in Prague, working remotely.
I like humans, tea and horses.
Official Bio:
Petr Salaba is a documentary filmmaker and science communicator focused on AI alignment with human values. He currently directs and produces video essays for the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast.
Petr’s works include „Scalespace“ – an AI-generated film about the evolution of communication and cooperation (premiered at IDFF Ji.hlava 2023), and „Anamensis“ – an interactive chatbot simulation testing human empathy toward digital suffering (CPH:DOX 2024).
Petr graduated from the Department of Documentary Film at Prague’s FAMU and teaches workshops on critical and creative AI implementation for public and commercial institutions. His interdisciplinary interests extend to embodied cognition and his passion for natural communication with horses.
THIS NO MAN’S LAND OF MINE
35 min documentary film –TRAILER
Documentary film about a group of radical anarcho-capitalists that decide to declare their own micro-nation in the Balkans as a part of a wacky tax evasion plan.
The film follows the self-proclaimed president of Liberland as he tries to convince the European politicians to join his cause and outsmart the Croatian border guards. Meetings on boards of private planes and police arrests on the ground ensue in this documentary comedy film.
liberlandthefilm.com
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22 min documentary film
Dramatic and satiric meditation about the history of humankind and technology. Shot mostly in 240fps during the G20 riots in Hamburg in 2017.
winner:
Best Czech and Slovak popular science documentary film, AFO International Festival of Science Documentary Films
official Selection:
Czech Joy, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
LIFE IN CANADA
PHOTO SERIES
A mix of news, event and street photographs from various events across Canada, from Vancouver nightclubs to the student protests in Montreal.
TIME SEALED
Intimate portrayal of obsolete photography process.
5 min short film
Before the invention of celluloid film, early photographs were captured on glass plates covered in light-sensitive liquid.
An average exposure time of one photo could be in tens of seconds which requires a very still posture of the model.
Cinematography: Nelson Talbot
Directed by Petr Salaba
ORGANIC FARMING
Series of 6 short documentaries commissioned by the Czech Ministry of Agriculture to promote alternative ways of animal and vegetable farming.
Organic farming often brings smaller yields than conventional methods but it might be a promising mid-step towards more thoughtful and humane form of agriculture in the near future.
Cinematography and production: Petr Salaba
NHL FINALE
PHOTO SERIES
The usually peacefully Canadians started burning things down, looting shops and flipping cars over on the roof.
In June 2011 the ice-hockey club Vancouver Canucks lost THE GAME 7. The final match in the Stanley Cup tournament.
TALKING HEADS
THE PHILOSOPHICAL FACULTY OF CHARLES UNIVERSITY
A popular series of videos about literature, philosophy and religion.
Some of the experts in the series are Martin Hilský, Tomáš Halík or Anna Housková.
Concept: Eva Krásová
Editing: Kateřina Krejčová
Photography and video: Petr Salaba