Czech music video Cimpoiasca boasts superb animation and plays with folklore elements and many visual ideas. Made by a FAMU graduate, the music video plunges into a nightmare and tells the story of a female friendship that is pungently delicious, just like homemade plum brandy.
The author’s film is inspired by the experience of a study stay in the Norwegian city of Volda. It describes the joint ascent of a pair of heroes to a local landmark – Rotsethornet. The author uses classic animation, for which she used painting with gouache paints to depict the sleepy atmosphere of a Norwegian town.
The occasionally fragmentary and humorous film Awkward is a mosaic of absurd moments related to various communication and social ineptitudes that happen during a single day. The film, bursting with ideas, is characterised by dynamic animation and pleasantly stylised drawing.
At first glance, this fly-through of an imaginary landscape seems minimalist. But the passing layers of colours, lines, structures and image nuances gradually consume the viewer. Thanks to the soundtrack, the impression left by this semi-abstract film intensifies gradually. The film was made by a representative of the new generation of Ukrainian filmmakers, known for his film Deep Love.
Home, family, solidarity, help, independence, human being… These are just some of the words that resonated strongly in the stories of women from the Kuchinate organisation, helping female African refugees find a place in Israel through the craft of crocheting. The film follows the story of a woman who has lost her home and is forced to set out to find a better future.
Interviews with three foreign graduates from East Asia – China, Japan and South Korea – telling stories about how they came to study animation in the Czech Republic. An animated documentary made for the 70th anniversary of the animation studio at Prague’s UMPRUM.
Little Death – an expression which in modern usage refers specifically to the “sensation of post orgasm” – is used here literally, as a description of a short coma resulting from a heroin overdose. This anidoc is a visual and verbal monologue of a person slowly dying. What is it like to die?
Green, yellow and blue, striking graphic stylisation and five dwarfs; these are the building stones of this playful film. In absurd moments, a world defined by lines and geometric shapes transforms and disintegrates until someone who can restore its lost order comes along.
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?
