3MWh
Czech Republic / Experimental / 12' / 16mm / Color / 2023
A nuclear power plant worker obsessed with counting has set a maximum limit on how much electricity he wants to consume. The energy that should have lasted him for the rest of his life is slowly running out, forcing him to decide on its final use. 3 MWh is a film poem about degrowth and shows what it would look like if man stopped putting themselves at the centre of nature.
Director: Marie-Magdalena Kochova
Producer: Agata Kolarova
Screenwriter: Josef Kokta
Cinematographer: Kristina Kulova
Editor: Veronika Kasparova
Sound Design: Martin Michalek
Music: Hastal Hapka
Cast: Jaroslav Pizl
CV
Marie-Magdalena Kochová is a Czech director based in Prague.
She graduated from New Media in Pilsen and Documentary Film at FAMU in Prague.
Her short film Apparatgeist (2019) was granted the Special Mention of Student Jury at the Ji.hlava IDFF 2019. Her hybrid short film Shells (2022) premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2022, competed at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2023, was selected to The Hottest Shorts of Hot Docs 2023 and won The Best International Student Film Award at Cinedans Film Festival Amsterdam 2023.
Her work focuses on personal and social themes through documentary and fictional forms, and she is currently working on her first documentary feature film The Other One.
Filmography
Apparatgeist (2019)
Shells (2022)
3 MWh (2023)
Festivals Attended
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024, Netherlands - World Premiere
Pragueshorts Film Festival 2024, Czech Republic