Stomach of the World

  • 41'
  • Greece
  • 2017

This playful surrealist film depicts the world as a body. A group of non-descript, Soviet era-looking children do all sorts of exercises and games to keep the body going. The world can be a stomach that needs filling, but also a snake modelled after the Greek ouroboros, that eats its own tail. The children can be eaten by the snake, but also crawl in and out of it themselves. Animation, puppetry and language exercises are serious activities controlled by an unseen narrator/master of ceremonies. Are they even children or are they little workers in one big system?

Prague artist and filmmaker Eva Kot'átková takes the relationship between the individual and a structure and vice versa as her point of departure. Collage, puppetry and other Czech image traditions are given new, critical, yet humorous places in her work. 

Director
Eva Kot'átková
Country of production
Greece
Year
2017
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
41'
Medium
File
Language
no dialogue
Producer
Athanasios Polychronopoulos / Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Production Company
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Sales
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Screenplay
Eva Kot'átková
Cinematography
Aleš Svoboda
Editor
Tereza Kozáková, Lucie Navrátilová
Sound Design
Jan Vacek
Music
Aid Kid
Cast
František Bouzek, Marie Bouzková, Katie Brown, Sam Budiman, Tobíaš Haertl, Antonín Holoubek, Adéla Kašparová
Director
Eva Kot'átková
Country of production
Greece
Year
2017
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
41'
Medium
File
Language
no dialogue
Producer
Athanasios Polychronopoulos / Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Production Company
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Sales
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Screenplay
Eva Kot'átková
Cinematography
Aleš Svoboda
Editor
Tereza Kozáková, Lucie Navrátilová
Sound Design
Jan Vacek
Music
Aid Kid
Cast
František Bouzek, Marie Bouzková, Katie Brown, Sam Budiman, Tobíaš Haertl, Antonín Holoubek, Adéla Kašparová