The Other Side

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• Barty Party

  Joanna Kożuch / 5 min. 15 sec. / Czech Republic

  Professor Jiří Barta, renowned Czech graphic artist, director and animator, has been teaching at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia since 2009. For his 70th birthday, students of the Studio of Animation and Interactive Art made a film with several techniques inspired by his own films and even with his own participation.

• The Other Side

  Pavel Koutský / 7 min. 39 sec. / Czech Republic

  Much like in the real world, everything in the latest film by the classic of Czech hand-drawn animation has its dark side. The author elaborates on that quite literally as his film has two parts: an optimistic part taking place on one side of the paper and a pessimistic part taking place on the other.

• I Will Die in This House

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• Switch of Roles

  Pavel Koutský / 5 min. 16 sec. / Czech Republic

  Pavel Koutský, the classic of Czech animation, once again addresses a topical issue: in the contemporary world, we are all both puppeteers and puppets without even noticing it. In his film, Koutský asks the question who is the object and who is the subject and who controls whom.