Aren't we all a bit like rats in a maze?
Country
Czech Republic
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A short film made for a bachelor's degree.
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Two brothers are caught by storm and they are drifted to the greatest whirpool on the world. Due to circumstances they will be forced to fight each other for life and death.
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What happens when a shot fired from a circus cannon goes astray
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A very short stop-motion film about a menstrual tampon preparing for a date.
- Comedy
- Romance
- Experimental
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A candid discussion between a director and a producer on the challenges and triumphs of creating a stop-motion musical. Featuring acclaimed director Bára Anna Stejskalová (Love Is Just a Death Away, 9 Million Colors) and Emmy Award-winning producer Jakub Košťál (Bionaut Animation, CZ), the session will dive into the intricacies of the genre, touching on topics like working with directors of photography, navigating budgets, overcoming production setbacks, and handling very tricky puppets. It’s an honest talk about the highs and lows of stop-motion filmmaking.
- Musical
- Fantasy
- Making of
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Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The animated documentary by Jitka Skálová and David Daenemark focuses not only on the Munich Agreement, but also on the wider context. Thanks to the commentary of historian Eduard Stehlik, it provides an insider’s view of the Europe that awaited the most tragic years of the last century.
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The conversation races through themes of Czechoslovakia’s birth, the relationship between the nations and contemporary social and generational problems, arriving to a reflection on the importance of the year 1918. The visual is framed by an image of characters talking and changes into various absurd or lyrical animated illustrations.
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This is a story about three kids who find a mysterious bone and their journey in trying to find the creature, that the bone belong to.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Family
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The audiovisual experiment [A]SPHX was made thorugh the conscious deformation of the digital process. Visual material that would usually get thrown out is transformed in a “two-dimensional” format into distinct and dynamic color fields animated by a minimalist beat, inspired by glitch art and the principles of absolute film.