Martin Kollar

Martin Kollar studied camera at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava, the Film faculty. He has been working as a freelance photographer, cinematographer and director since his graduation. Kollar use to work on long term photography projects (Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Israel, Japan). He has received several grants and awards as Prix Elysee inand Oscar Barnack Award. His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions worldwide at venues includingthe Brooklyn Museum, the Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, Tel Aviv museum of art and Maison Europeen de la Photography Paris. He has published four photography books, Nothing Special (Actes sud 2008) Cahier (Diaphane 2011) Field trip (Mack 2013), Catalogue (Slovak National Gallery 2015). As a cinematographer, Kollár has worked on a number of films, including KOZA (2015),
VELVET TERRORISTS (2013), COOKING HISTORY (2009), 66 SEASONS (2003) and others. He made his directorial debut with the short autobiographical portrait AUTOPORTRAIT (2012). His feature debut is 5 OCTOBER (2016).