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The year is 2148. The trees have long since burned down and the shadows of the rocks have become a refuge for all the surviving animals. Boris the bear is no exception, as he leaves his hiding place because of sensational tourists. However, his desperate escape unexpectedly turns into a heartbreaking bear romance.
The film starts in Baikonur. A female dog is captured while trying to find something to feed her puppies. She is named Laika and brought to a local spaceport. Professor Voroljov and his assistant Kokotov begin preparing Laika for space travel. On the day before the launch, Laika manages to get out of her cage and visits the space rocket. Then she returns for her puppies and smuggles them into the rocket.
The animated video clip was created as a closing ceremony at UMPRUM in Prague. Four second-year students were challenged to combine their different approaches to visuals and animation itself. The central motifs of the film are the range of cartoon animation and the building of friendship, metaphorically represented in the theme of this work.
The kitchen of a forgetful granny comes to life when she’s not around. Saltshaker, sugar bowl and the rest are set to fix what she’s accidently forgotten.
Story about one little man, who tried to keep pace.
CEE Animation Experience webinar dedicated to Keep Festive, a new international initiative committed to creating safer, more inclusive environments at animation industry events. Guest speakers Aneta Ozorek and Anastasiya Verlinska, representing member festivals behind the initiative, will present its core values, practical tools, and real-world protocols developed to prevent sexual harassment and unsafe situations. From establishing a Code of Conduct to training staff and managing sensitive cases, this session will explore ways organizers and festival professionals can foster respectful and supportive industry events.
The video for the band’s biggest hit playfully combines folk motifs and those that are more typical of techno.
This animated video clip by Johuš Matuš gently transports us into his world of rural pop full of nature, horses, dogs and sick people. During the train journey, we witness how through song one can find a brief moment that may or may not last forever. Right now, forever.
The story of an indefatigable singer, whom not even death can stop – he keeps on singing…
Cimpoiasca’s Czech music video is characterized by brilliant drawing, play with folklore elements and a number of visual ideas. A music video plunging into a nightmare and telling a story about female friendship, which is as bitterly delicious as homemade plum, was shot by a graduate of Prague’s FAMU.
The figure against the space. The human figure's attempt to rest is disrupted by the surrounding space, which constantly oppresses it. With each attempt to escape, it finds itself in a fight with it again. Is it even possible for it to break this cycle?
How does it feel not to understand your own body and its needs? To perceive everything but food blurry and meaningless? The animated documentary film INSIDE shows a day in life of a person suffering a mental illness called Anorexia Nervosa. It is an intimate insight into the mind of an anorexic, who just must somehow interact with the raw reality.
A film about staging a theater performance 70 years after the events of 1948, as well as the real theater production that the whole communist coup was. Puppets seemingly without puppeteers, puppets moving about of their own free will – this is how communist comrades were and this is exactly how they’re presented in this film.
Incomprehensible Labour by Specific Means deals with the theme of labour in the contemporary. It critically points out the relationship between the abstraction of advanced automation and the concreteness of human labour. Work that is not always conscious and visible, but often unconscious and invisible. At the same time, this video highlights the fetishization of technology and performance, the result is not only invisible but also unimportant.
Birds are flying. The Birds a garden. The garden inside. Inside a man. The man through the center. Coming through the center. A house coming. The house closed. Closed heavily. Raining heavily. The house is raining. The house a storm. The storm a shadow. The shadow a shadow. The shadow out. The garden out. The garden is flowing away. It is flowing silently. Silently open. The open house. The house is leaving. Leaving through the center. The man through the center. The man out. The garden out. The garden the birds. The birds are flying. The BA film of Ondřej Dolejší captures the advent of a storm, and gradually develops the atmosphere, employing minimalistic yet powerful devices.
There’s treasure in the bins – an inspirational trove or material for a new way of looking at the world.
A humorous story of a man living double life: one of a beaten little clerk, humiliated by his arrogant boss, imperious wife and misbehaved descendant.
This mockumentary takes aim at 21st century society, which is still full of prejudice and intolerance towards people of different sexes, opinions and genders. The author asks the question whether these problems would disappear if humans were oviparous. Would we be more tolerant and perceptive of our surroundings?
Can the robot subtitute an actor in the theatre? The story of this short lenght sci-fi film with impressive atmosphere and rafined 3D animation held in Prague in not far future. The theatre director decides to feature the robot for the main role instead the actor. The robot gets out of theatre to the streets of city after intervention of angry actor. The robot is starting to play his life role.
This short puppet etude tells the story of an unusual way to get home after a night at the pub.