Big Nothing

We won’t return to normality, because normality was the problem. The Great Nothing - documentary essay about the society in the times of covid.

"The Great Nothing" is a feature-length documentary essay about the pandemic of the Covid-19 disease. The film crew of Vít Klusák and Marika Pecháčková took to the streets of empty Prague in March 2020 and followed the events and behavior of Czech society for two years. Instead of instant "reportage" recording specific events, the filmmakers focused on human stories, poetics of the time, bizarre images or important moments in politics and society. They followed doctors in hospitals, anti-vaxx protesters, one of the first covid positive patients in the Czech Republic, athletes training at home or a mezzo-soprano Monika who was forced to start working in a supermarket. Due to the length of the filming, there was also time to reflect on the whole pandemic and human behavior itself. Where at the beginning of 2020 there was a sense of cohesion and mutual aid, by the end of 2021 society was already fragmented and people were labeling, vilifying and attacking each other. And so the film becomes an imaginary mirror of the times and of the pandemic. A time that changed the pace of the world, and from which humanity will take a long time to recover. The question is whether we will learn...