Bio
I'm a Prague-based cinematographer with a master's degree from the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek, with further studies at Edge Hill University in the UK. I started as a camera assistant and worked my way up — focus puller, camera operator, DOP. That path taught me the craft from the ground up, and it still shapes how I work today.
Whether a project calls for a Director of Photography, cinematographer, or a hands-on camera operator behind the lens, Ondřej brings the same visual instincts and collaborative approach to set.
Over 17 years I've shot everything from TV campaigns with millions of viewers to small-budget films with tight-knit crews. The format changes; the job doesn't. It's always about the story — finding the frame, the light and the rhythm that make an audience feel something. I enjoy close collaboration with directors, careful pre-production, and the kind of on-set improvisation that only comes when you know the rules well enough to break them.
In recent years I've been exploring what generative AI means for filmmaking — not as a shortcut, but as a new creative territory. I work with tools like Higgsfield, Runway, Kling and ElevenLabs, and I'm currently developing Korkontoi, a serialized AI short film series inspired by Celtic Iron Age history and the mythology of the Krkonoše mountains. Where the technology goes next, I want to be there with a filmmaker's eye.
What hasn't changed: I care about precision, atmosphere, and stories worth telling. The ambition that drives me is narrative film — features, series, festival titles. I'm open to new challenges and connections. Let's meet on set — or over coffee.
"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist — moving an audience through a movie... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark." — Gordon Willis, ASC
Based in Prague, available worldwide.