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The performative essay is an authorial form on the border between film and theater. It comes out from the principle of artistic research. It builds on the direct communication of the author/performer with fragments of the projected film work, on which reacts immediately in front of the audience. The framework consists of factual historical reference points, into which in an immediate narrative reconstruction enters the connection with the emotion evoked by the film work authentic experience. In this case, the images from the Terezín Ghetto are going to be entered by the inner the perception of a child who goes to the penitentiary to visit his father, detained as a result of political purges in 50s of the last century. Subjective history intertwines with supposedly objective history. Performance is not a it must not be bound by a fixed text, no matter how extensive research precedes it. Its essence is built on improvisation, based exclusively on contact with the audience. Similar to a written essay it is about connecting many layers and being able to sense the immediate associational pull that will determine what he is to stay out of the planned themes and motifs. It is an author's exploration of the possibilities of transference principles of the essay into film theater space and mode.