Every single minute

  • Erika Hnikova

Ever since his birth, a Slovak married couple Michal and Lenka Hanuliak have been conducting a peculiar experiment on their now four-year-old son Miski. They spend every minute raising him to one day become a successful athlete and a « quality human being » in all senses of the word. They have decided to sacrifice everything, including their own individual pursuits, in order to achieve this goal. This films captures their efforts for a period of one year and through raw scenes from the Hanuliaks family life, it raises a number of questions with regard to the meaning of parenting in today’s society, single-minded focus on performance and the possible « robotization » of our lives.

  • Status : Shooting, post-production
  • Completion : September 2020
  • Screening version length : 77 min
  • Expected final length : 80 min