Synopsis:
Documentary animation film based on interviews with foreigners who live in Prague for a long time.
- Director:
- Daria Kashcheeva
- Year:
- 2017
- Country:
- Czech Republic
- Running time:
- 5 min.
- Technique:
- Other
- Original title:
- Praha očima cizinců
- Production type:
- Student
- Animator:
- Daria Kashcheeva
- Script writer:
- Daria Kashcheeva
- Sound designer:
- Daniela Vaníčková
- Editor:
- Daria Kashcheeva
- Production:
- FAMU – Academy of performing arts in Prague
- Audience:
- Adults
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Daughter
2019 All audiences 15 min
by Daria Kashcheeva
A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave…
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In a Dumpster
2017 All audiences 2 min
by Daria Kashcheeva
There’s treasure in the bins – an inspirational trove or material for a new way of looking at the world.
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Oasis
2017 16+ 2 min
by Daria Kashcheeva
Loud music, hectic crowds, baby cries, car horns, rebuilding, sirens… Sometimes we want to run away… But where?
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Before the Wind
2016 Adults 4 min
by Daria Kashcheeva
A short story about saying goodbye.
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Electra
2023 Adults 27 min
by Daria Kashcheeva
Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams and hidden fantasies.
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Social Cube
2019 All audiences 4 min
by Bety Suchanová
Animated essay about global situation of our society living in neoliberalism which tends to constant need of growth and increases inequality. Film is pointing out problems most of the people face in their everyday life without noticing it, and encourages us for seeking brighter prospects for the future and break through.
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Life in Patterns
2017 Adults 2 min
by Vojtěch Domlátil
Growing up from perfect patterns. Tenderness, poorness and kitsch. Life in 12 frames per second.
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Texture
2022 Adults 2 min
by Veronika Chocenská, Tan Lui Chan
This short but impressive experimental animation was made by students of the Studio of Animation at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia during a traditional school plein-air. It was inspired by the endlessly elaborate structures of the bark on trees near the Wallenstein Loggia. The students fittingly used the technique of non-phased animation – animation of real photographs.
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Gosheven: Until Exhaustion
2021 16+ 4 min
by Magdalena Hejzlarová
This music video is a computer-generated animation made in an open-source program Golly. The program is used as a simulation of cell growth. The background is made with animated objects in the scanner. The story follows the lyrics of the song. First, the growth seems unlimited, then a peak comes, we break and vanish and again and again, the game of life. Behind this circle, an everlasting nostalgia is present.
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Love, Dad
2021 Adults 13 min
by Diana Cam Van Nguyen
A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters, her dad wrote to her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said, blaming her father for the family´s break-up but also trying to understand him.
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Ant Hill
2020 Adults 13 min
by Marek Náprstek
An adolescent ant worker living in the outskirts of a dying human world who wants more from her life than accepting the given fate. However when she is cast out for accidentaly causing fire she is scared of the the outside and longs to be accepted back. She has to grow up to save the world.
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Cuckoo
2020 All audiences 4 min
by Daniela Hybnerová
A short animated document which humorously depicts how cuckoos lay eggs into nests of other birds.