A Ballad About Green Wood
Brilliant work. Plot moves quickly and kept me wondering what comes next? I loved the kind of double twist at the end. I am sure it isn't everyone's 'cup-o-tea' but...
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Jiri Barta
Films
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Riddles for a Candy
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.Start your free trial to watch
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The Design
Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta’s ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor...Start your free trial to watch
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The Vanished World of Gloves
Winner of several prizes at the 1983 Oberhausen Film Festival, Jiří Barta’s highly original burlesque of film history substitutes gloves for the actors who might wear them. The vanished world is revealed when a worker discovers cans of film at a garbage dump (of him too, only the hands). The stop motion...Start your free trial to watch
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A Ballad About Green Wood
Split logs dance in sunlight as soon as the axe has cleared away. Czech folk music and time-lapse photography focus animistic energy upon clouds streaming across the sky, rivers raging with melted snow and the earth bursting with raw life. A mythic being born of wood and a crow flies through winter and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Winner of multiple festival awards, Jiří Barta’s bold adaptation of the classic fairy tale stands comparison to expressionist landmarks like THE GOLEM and THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. In terms of visual design, his medieval village plagued by rats refers directly back to those earlier films' labyrinthine...Start your free trial to watch
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Club of the Discarded
A warehouse full of disfigured mannequins springs to life as a streetcar rumbles by. They’re creatures of habit but the daily routine is overturned by the arrival of a new crate of punkish statues. Czech animator Jiří Barta's brilliant choreography holds a cracked mirror up to our own learned behaviors....Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Crime / Transgression / Caper/Heist
- Adaptation / Cinematic
- Animation / Cut-Out
- Animation / Cut-Out
- International / European / Czech
- International / European / Czech
- International / European / Czech
- International / European / Czech
- International / European / Czech
- International / European / Czech
- International / European / Czech
- International / European / Czech
- Horror / Expressionist
- Fantasy / Fable
- Fantasy / Fable
- Fantasy / Fairy Tale
- Fantasy / Magic
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Animation / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
- Animation / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
- Animation / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
- Animation / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
- Animation / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
- Animation / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Horror / Creature Feature / Vampire
Recent Reviews
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The magic of kindness, by a pied piper goodness to drive away evil creatures from among the upright creature were magical. But turns out the pied piper end up haven't...
The Last Theft
loved it !!!!
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The town of Hamelin has become the medieval version of Sodom and Gomorrah a place of greed and avarice. In this amazing animated carved objects variation of the Pied Piper...
Club of the Discarded
this is brilliant! should make for some interesting dream material...