This experimental film was made by a student of the Academy of Arts, Architecture Design in Prague. According to her own words, the director was inspired by the undiscovered secrets of the universe. To create the visual style of her film, she used computer programmes and collected numerical data that served as a basis for the film’s soundtrack built upon their exact sound representation and conversion.
Chitnis Lundgren’s art film tells the story of Herman the rat who lives in a disorganised and chaotic household. One day though, a small and timid cat appears on his doorstep with its luggage. And thus begins a very peculiar relationship that gradually leads to catastrophe.
Once upon a nighttime, something happened close to a village near Prague. With a specifically naive artistic style, a student of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague tells the story of three friends who – for economic reasons – decided to walk and – uneconomically – stopped in a pub in Srbsko, a village near Prague.
A film inspired by the life and work of the conceptual German artist Joseph Beyus, film directorAndrei Tarkovski, as well as the historical and political situation in Ukraine and the Balticcountries.
In her film, a student of the University of West Bohemia makes a humorous commentary on her grandpa’s journeys across Africa. To portray his memories and give a vivid picture of the African countryside and wilderness, she chose plastic in natural brown and beige colours.
Death comes repeatedly in waves and has its own place in the cycle of nature. One plant’s trash is another plant’s treasure, as this film combining an ‘organic topic’ with digital animation suggests. The resulting shape resembles a computer simulation – a game of sorts.
This 3D black and white film by a director from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen visualises a metaphor of dealing with problems in our lives. Using a minimalist setting and score, the director starts a cycle of escapes from cages in which we inevitably find ourselves again and again.
This lino-cut music video made for a Czech alternative band named Planety tells a story of love set in an ocean enclosed in a small aquarium. The director, a student of the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, plays with phased lino-cut movements supplemented by hand-drawn details.
This film, which in its time fascinated audiences at dozens of festivals, portrays Snow White’s last dream that she has during her way to the emergency room. The director uses CGI animation in his own way and is equally original content-wise. The girl’s surrealist dream is swarming with altered and deformed Walt Disney characters.
