Three short fables about Havettová’s main theme of help and abuse, done in a minimalist style so that no surface artistry distracts the viewer from the lessons. The encounters happen between: a coloured pencil and a knife, with a sharpener making things complicated; a dress and an iron; and finally, a bundle of matches, a teapot and a suicidal candle.
– Olaf Möller
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The Year of 1812 (War and Peace)
An almost psychedelically luminous invocation of the Battle of Borodino set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (1880).
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A Portrait from Our Century
An associative animation of photos and paintings, showing mankind’s history and the fortunes and misfortunes of life in a human face.
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Pieseň
Proto-music video set to duet by Helena Vondráčková and Waldemar Matuška. Pioneering work of pre-independence Slovak animation
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Kým sa ucho neodbije
Ironic yet forgiving look at human foibles and weakness, set to commentary of peasant proverbs.
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In My Pocket
A cornucopia of stories-in-songs for children, based on poems by famous (Soviet) Latvian literato Ojārs Vācietis.
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The Golden Sieve
Three stories-in-songs for children about the heavens above. A milestone in (Soviet) Latvian animation!
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Bear of Happiness
When a village is in danger, the inhabitants set out to find the Bear of Happiness.
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The Age of the Barbarians
A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
Film details
- Country of production
- Czechoslovakia
- Year
- 1980
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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