Jan Kříženecký

Jan Kříženecký (20 March 1868 Praha – 9 February 1921) was Czech cinema pioneer, director, cinematographer and photographer.

He started his work as an architecture student (his brother Rudolf Kříženecký also studied architecture and became an architect). In collaboration with actor Josef Šváb-Malostranský, he filmed three comic short films (Dostaveníčko ve mlýnici, Plač a smích and Výstavní párkař a lepič plakátů) and more documentary short films. They were first exhibited in June 1898 at the Architecture and Engineering Exhibition in Prague. Kříženecký directed film up to 1910, later he documented Prague for the municipal authority as a photographer.