Jiří Barta

Seven animated films and the 1987 live-action short "The Last Theft" comprise this collection spotlighting the prodigious talents and distinctive cinematic vision of Czech animator Jiri Barta. Slyly amusing and often featuring anti-consumerist motifs, his films brilliantly encapsulate imaginative worlds. Selections include "Disc Jockey" (1980), "The Design" (1981), "The Vanished World of Gloves" (1982) and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1985).

Deep in the mountains a little Japanese boy called Minokitchi witnesses a tragic event.

어느 집 다락방에서 행복하게 살아가는 장난감들이 있다. 스페인 꼭두각시 인형 ‘핸섬 경’, 최고의 도자기 인형이며 귀여운 제빵사인 ‘버터컵’, 기차역장인 “테디”, 진흙 인형 ‘로랑’ 등. 아침이면 늘 맛있는 케익을 구워주던 버터컵이 어느 날 갑자기 악의 세계를 다스리는 잔인한 무리들에게 의해 납치된다. 버터컵을 구하고 평화를 되찾기 위해 친구들의 노력은 과연 성공할 수 있을까?

어느 집 다락방에서 행복하게 살아가는 장난감들이 있다. 스페인 꼭두각시 인형 ‘핸섬 경’, 최고의 도자기 인형이며 귀여운 제빵사인 ‘버터컵’, 기차역장인 “테디”, 진흙 인형 ‘로랑’ 등. 아침이면 늘 맛있는 케익을 구워주던 버터컵이 어느 날 갑자기 악의 세계를 다스리는 잔인한 무리들에게 의해 납치된다. 버터컵을 구하고 평화를 되찾기 위해 친구들의 노력은 과연 성공할 수 있을까?

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins and a spiritual rebirth. Among the films are "Ape," which features a couple fighting over a cooked monkey every night; "The Story of the Cat and the Moon," which is a tale of unrequited love; and "Gentle Spirit," which is based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story.

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.

어느 산속의 산장에 열한 명의 아이들이 모인다. 아직 모임의 정확한 성격도 모르는 아이들 앞에 산장지기가 나타나 이곳에 초대받지 않은 한 명이 끼어 있다고 말한다. 외부와의 연락이 차단된 상태에서 아이들은 점차 공포와 혼란에 빠지고, 결국 서로를 의심하며 죽고 죽이는 상황에 처한다. 부조리한 전개 속에 그려진 극단적 사건들이 강렬한 인상을 남기는 작품. 1987년 베를린영화제 경쟁부문 상영.

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

Throughout the 1990s, Jiří Barta tried to find funding for a feature film called The Golem, but has thus far only managed to complete a short pilot film, released in 1993, though work on the feature is ongoing as of 2014.

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film.

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

A short film by Jiri Barta

A short film by Jiri Barta

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.

In Jiří Barta’s imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.

The story is set in communist Prague of 1950s, a banal coincidence sends a math student Adam on a quest to find the famous Prague Golem and bring it back to life. In an old anatomy book, he finds an old photograph, which shows a group of people standing with a tall dark figure in the back. He also meets mysterious Mr. Moller, who pretends to know the secret of bringing Golem to life. In the ruins of an old hotel, he finds an enormous figure, but the Golem that awakes is not the obedient servant of Rabbi Löwe – it is an ever-growing shapeless figure of clay can even defeat human ingenuity. Adam has to stand up against the person behind and stop the hidden machine of the hotel.

The story is set in communist Prague of 1950s, a banal coincidence sends a math student Adam on a quest to find the famous Prague Golem and bring it back to life. In an old anatomy book, he finds an old photograph, which shows a group of people standing with a tall dark figure in the back. He also meets mysterious Mr. Moller, who pretends to know the secret of bringing Golem to life. In the ruins of an old hotel, he finds an enormous figure, but the Golem that awakes is not the obedient servant of Rabbi Löwe – it is an ever-growing shapeless figure of clay can even defeat human ingenuity. Adam has to stand up against the person behind and stop the hidden machine of the hotel.