Miroslav Gabor
Vinohradska 132
Prague
Czech Republic


E-mail:
miro@cabiriafilms.com

Born in 1962, Czechoslovakia.
Trained in Camera Department, Prague Academy of Arts 1986 - 1992

Professional film credits include:

Feature Films

"Time Stands Still" 1991
Graduate film awarded with first prize for film photography and prize of the Jury at FFICS International Film Festival in Tokyo. Nomination in Student Oscar Film Competition in Los Angeles and at the 16th Illinois Festival of Film and Video

"Sinkline"1992
Directed by Virginia McCollum, student of Columbia University in New York, shot in New Orleans, Louisiana, story of misunderstanding and deterioration of human relationship

"Mystery Of The Puzzle" 1994
Czech classic brought to the screen in a widely acclaimed stylised adaptation, nominated in Czech Lion Award Competition 1994

"Hazard" 1995
Successful Slovak action thriller, starring Pavel Landovsky, Marek Vasut and Milka Vasaryova

"Mnaga - The Happy End" 1996
Fictionalised documentary about a cult Czech rock band, originally shot for TV but so successful as to be released in the cinema

"Buttoners" 1997
International award winning black comedy, film continuing to enjoy art house cinema release, awarded with first prize in Rotterdam and Locarno as well as six Czech "Lions" including "Film of the Year"

"The Trial" 1997
short feature directed by Stephen Berkman, that follows the travails of an American novel writer who has retreated to Prague, where he becomes increasingly disturbed while reading Franz Kafka's "The Trial".

"What You'll Find In The Wheat Fields" 1998
poetically charming stories depicting the journey of different countryside characters from their childhood to senior age, starring Iva Janzurova

"Dune" 2000
Science-fiction adaptation of Frank Herbert's famous novel, directed by John Harrison, cinematography by Vittorio Storaro; myself: cinematography on second unit (EMMI award for special effects)

"Victims And Killers" 2000
Black comedy feature film, based on the true story of never-ending love and hate between brother and sister, starring Karel Roden and Ivana Chylkova

"Powers" 2000
black comedy about human fate and the meaning of higher power lend to a magician, starring Petr Forman, Ivan Trojan and Ivana Chylkova

"Year Of The Devil" 2001
Fictionalised documentary inspired by Czech folk and folk-rock music scene - about "strange melodies" in peoples' minds


camera operator

"Hidden in Silence" 1995, Lifetime/Hearst, Dir: Richard Colla

"Passion's Way" 1997 CBS/Hearst, Dir: Robert Alan Ackerman, Starring: Timothy Dalton


Documentary Films

BBC Open University "The Black Triangle"

BBC Channel Hopping "Prague"

 

Commercials / Promos / Music Videos

Claudia Schiffer's World Wide Fitness Video, 1996

Celine Dion, music video, 1997

commercials for LEO BURNETT, GREY, BATES-DORLAND, OGILVIE, YOUNG AND RUBICAM