Martin Palúch

doc. Mgr. Martin Palúch, PhD

In 2001, he graduated from the Film and Television Faculty at the Academy of Performing Arts /FTF VŠMU/ in Bratislava. He is currently working as an independent researcher at the Institute of Theatre and Film Research at the Slovak Academy of Sciences /CVU SAV/ in Bratislava. He is also a lecturer in documentary filmmaking at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and conducts a seminar on the history and theory of documentary film at the Documentary Film Directing Studio at the Academy of Performing Arts /FTF VŠMU/ in Bratislava. He is the author of numerous articles and expert studies in the field of film theory and history and the book publication Vnem v zrkadle fotografie a filmu  /Perception in the Optical Mirror of Photography and Film/ (2010) and co-author of the monograph Herec Ivan Palúch /The Actor Ivan Palúch/ (2008) that was his father. In 2015, he published a comprehensive publication Autorský dokumentárny film na Slovensku po roku 1989 /Authored Documentary Film in Slovakia after 1989/ and, in 2017, a monograph Cenzúra a dokumentárny film po roku 1989 /Censorship and Documentary Film after 1989/. He is the director of the editing film Odpočítavanie – posledný film Ivana Palúcha  /Countdown – the last film of Ivan Palúch/ (2022). Since 2023, he has been the artistic director of the MFF Art Film Fest Košice.