People
Ludovit Labik
Film teacher at VŠMU Bratislava, Slovakia and FMK UTB Zlin, Czech Republic. Member of the Artistic and Pedagogical Council of University FDU in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
Dramaturgist, editor, in addition to the nine existing ones, initiator and founder of two new study plans at the Film and Television Faculty of VŠMU. In 2011, he initiated the accreditation of the unique Visual Effects study program, https://www.avfx.sk/en and in 2019, with accreditation, he established the Game Design study plan. https://ahd.avfx.sk/en
Currently, he is the head of the combined separate plans under the name Visual Effects and Game Design Department. As a university supervisor in both Slovakia and the Czech Republic, he led a total of 17 doctoral students, all of whom became important educators in the environment. He is the manager of many domestic and foreign grants, including the important VFX Top Team Slovakia supported by the Ministry. Since 2006, he has been organizing and conducting a total of 18 years of the Summer School of Film Language and seven times one-year courses Next Education of Film Language FTF VŠMU. Since 2014, he has been organizing conferences, which in 2019 changed to the International Conference VFX and GD Bratislava, IVGC.
https://www.avfx.sk/en/2023-international-vfx-and-gd-conference-bratislava
In the years 1978-1982, he studied at FAMU in Prague (Czech Republic), at the Department of Editing, his graduation film Nemocný-í (1982) was the first diploma technological video film created at FAMU. In 1983 he joined Koliba Slovak Film Studio, the largest film studio in Slovakia, where he co-founded Studio Videofilm SFT Koliba. He became a minister-awarded improver and pioneer of the digitization of feature film production in Slovakia by introducing post-production video technologies. After the collapse of Koliba due to the social change of the political system, he worked as an artist in a freelance profession. In the years 1989-92, he collaborated in Russia and Germany on the international co-production series Gold Rush (Alaska Kid, dir. by J. Hill, 1993) and later in the same production in Russia on the feature film The Wolves (dir. S. Carver, 1996). In the years 1993-2001, he was the editor of the series of cult television grotesques Bud Bindi (dir. J. Slovák, J. Heriban, P. Jursa) presented at several international festivals, internationally distributed for many years and awarded in the USA, among other countries.
From 1986, he started teaching at the then Theater Faculty of VŠMU. After the establishment of the Faculty of Film and Television in 1995, he co-founded the Department of Film Editing at VŠMU, which he was the head of in 2000-2006. Since 2008, he has been a teacher at FMK UTB Zlín (CR). He has been participating in dramaturgical conferences in Opava (CR) for a long time, is invited to lectures at the film school in Katowice (Poland), and is a member of many festival committees.
As a dramaturgist, he participated in the feature films Kidnapping (dir. M. Čengel Solčanská, 2017), Čerešne (dir. K. Gramatová, 2019), Smečka (dir. T. Polenský, 2020), and 100 or more post-graduation and school films movies.
He is the author of the monograph Dramaturgy of the film editing (VerBum Publishing House, 2013, ISBN 978-80-87500-30-9) and a number of professional articles focused primarily on the dramaturgy of the film story.
In 2013, he received the title of Professor.