I Can’t Swim
- Director:
Pavla Baštanová
- Designer: Pavla Baštanová
- Produced By: VŠUP
- Country of origin: Czech Republic
- Length: 1 min. 50 sec.
- Year: 2015
The short animated film I Can’t Swim is this year’s Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague competition entry. The author explores the schizophrenic feelings of a man with a mental disorder. She uses a metaphor of a castaway on an abandoned island. The fantasy of a sick brain knows no boundaries - it consumes the schizophrenic and he is not able to distinguish his fantasies from the real world anymore. And yet the reality is so prosaic.