After graduating from FAMU (Czech Film and TV Academy), he worked as an assistant director to primarily foreign directors. At that time began to make his own documentary films and has been directing feature films since 1989. 1994 was the year of the release of his first feature film, Amerika, a free adaptation of the Kafka novel. As with America, he wrote the screenplay for his film Angel Exit 2000. The film won the 2002 Daring Digital Award on the Jeonju International Film Festival.