Retrospektive

Kurzfilmprogramm II

Poslední trik pana Schwarcewaldea a pana Edgara / Der letzte Trick von Herrn Schwarzwald und Herrn Edgar / The Last Trick
Tschechoslowakei / Czechoslovakia 1964
12 MIN / 35mm, Farbe, OF - ohne Dialog
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Jan Švankmajer

The story of the two magicians Mr. Edgar and Mr. Schwarzwald plays with the subject of headbirth, both magicians produce a series of droll sensations in a friendly competition. The end is surprisingly conciliatory.

 

Et cetera / Et cetera / Et cetera
Tschechoslowakei / Czechoslovakia 1966
8 MIN / 35mm, Farbe, OF - ohne Dialog
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Jan Švankmajer

The hopeless eternal return of the normed, the suppression.

 

Byt / Die Wohnung / The Flat
Tschechoslowakei / Czechoslovakia 1968
13 MIN / 35mm, s/w, OF - ohne Dialog
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Jan Švankmajer

The permanent metamorphosis of a man in a room he changes prtially and whose objects change him in return. This black-humoured work is as full of references to other films as the protagonist's clothes are full of nails tearing at them.

 

Možnosti dialogu / Möglichkeiten des Dialogs / Dimensions of Dialogue
Tschechoslowakei / Czechoslovakia 1982
11 MIN / 16mm, Farbe, OF - ohne Dialog
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Jan Švankmajer

In quickly cut pictures, animated figures from all sorts of materials think about forms of human communication, the "factual dialogue", the "passionate dialogue", the "exhausting dialogue" - droll mixing or gulping each other down not excluded.

 

Do pivnice / In den Keller / Down to the Cellar
Tschechoslowakei / Czechoslovakia 1983
15 MIN / 16mm, Farbe, OF - ohne Dialog
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Jan Švankmajer

A rather dark mixture of Little Red Riding Hood and Alice in Wonderland, in which a girl with a basket goes into the cellar to get potatoes but encounters creatures (like living shoes) who are after their own interests. The seemingly hopeless end is remotely reminiscent of the Sisyphos-myth.

 

Kývadlo, jáma a nadeje / Pendel, Grube, Hoffnung / Pendulum, the Pit and Hope
Tschechoslowakei / Czechoslovakia 1983
15 MIN / 35mm, s/w, OF - ohne Dialog
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Jan Švankmajer

Combined animation after motifs from Edgar Allan Poe's "Pit and pendulum"
and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "Hope" about a person who is hopelessly in the hands of inquisitional violence.

 


Postava k podpírání / Josef Kilian / Joseph Kilian
Tschechoslowakei / Czechoslovakia 1963
37 MIN / 35mm, s/w, OmeU
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt

On his search for an institution that rents cats, Josef Kilian (whose initials are reminiscent of Kafka's "Castle") finds himself in a kafkaesque bureaucratic labyrinth with hints at the stalinism which Prague hasn't gotten over yet.



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