Recent research into the legacy of Ester Krumbachová, initiated by the discovery of documents, artworks, writings, photographs, clothes, and other belongings comprising her estate, creates new perspectives on the life, film industry and culture of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s in communist Czechoslovakia, the arrival of capitalism, and the swift neoliberal turn. However, it also presents difficulties with political and gender norms, and most significantly Krumbachová’s affiliation with future generations and the topics of our contemporaneity, such as feminism and gender fluidity, sex, food and cooking, care, welfare, plant and animal intelligence, interspecies communication, animism, holism, magic materialism, and object agency.