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Exhibition Czech Animation After ‘89, prepared by Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films in collaboration with the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery, maps the last 30 years of Czech animation. After the revolutionary year 1989, a new era began in Czech cinema. And animation naturally went through a difficult period when production and distribution environment radically changed. But it also brought new creative possibilities and successes.
Czech Animation After ‘89 is the first exhibition recapitulating the last three decades in detail. It recounts the modern milestones of our animation in the form of feature films, successful television series and in particular short and student films. Apart from giving a comprehensive reflection, the exhibition aims to relativise the generally acknowledged notion of “the end of the golden era” and the claim that Czech animation hasn’t achieved any success during the last thirty years.

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Linz organisation Ars Electronica prepares various projects in the fi elds of art, culture, science, education, trade and industry all around the world, ranging from exhibitions, through conferences and workshops to performances. Their projects are prepared as turn-key solutions or in collaboration with various partners. This exhibition prepared by the Ars Electronica curators will introduce the work of renowned Salzburgian graphic artist and animator Reinhold Bidner who focuses on animation and electronic media and explores in particular the possibilities of work with time, games and new media arts. He works alone or in collaboration with Austrian artistic collective gold extra.
The Austrian artistic group gold extra produces artworks in and in between Fine Arts, Performance, Music and Hybrid Media. They are engaged in constant research in innovative art forms to create the most compatible formal environment for their ideas.

In the Třeboň chateau gallery, you will have a chance to see videos Ex Terrat, CONfusions, Until We Coleidescape, Impulse and the computer game The Fallen.

SCHOOL OF ANIMATION uses an entertaining form to introdukce the process of animated film production to children. Under the supervision of lecturers, children will go through the entire process and make their very own animated films from script to the final animation. They will use various artistic techniques such as cut-out animation, drawing, sand animation, pixilation and possibly also the demanding technique of puppet animation. The films made during the SCHOOL OF ANIMATION will be screened and awarded at the closing ceremony of the ANIFILM International Festival of Animated Films on Saturday 11th May in Třeboň.

SCHOOL OF ANIMATION will take place on the 1st floor of KKC Roháč from 7th to 12th May.

7th May from 12am to 5pm
8th–11th May from 9.30am to 5pm
12th May from 9.30 am to 2 pm

Music by teepee is a unique combination of dreampop and indie folk. The teepee sound is defined by acoustic guitar played by Mason and fragile notes of electric guitar, rendered by singing Tééra. You can also find traces of samples and synthetic sounds and experiments in their music. During its three-year-existence, the band became popular among fans and critics alike. Apart from participating in the musical export project Czeching 2018, they performed at festivals such as Waves Vienna and Nouvelle Prague. Last year, they released a single named Running Around made in collaboration with British produced Tom O. Marshall who is also working on their new album.

The festival will again open the Game & VR Zone which you can find on the ground floor of Měšťanská Beseda and will be available throughout the whole time of the festival. You will have a chance to play the games from our International Competition of Independent Computer Games, watch VR films and try games in virtual reality.

“I’d like to tell you about the Little Prince. I’ve never talked about this encounter to anyone. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.”

A one-man-theatre who on an old pram with puppets and music tells the story about his encounter with the Little Prince. A 50-minute-long performance suitable for children from 5 years of age.

Prepared by: Vítězslav Marčík ml.

Coming from Hradec Kralove (CR), Noví Lidé is a duo oscillating in the post-punk Dark Wave electronic music mix, prolific since 2013. Distinguished by its minimalistic arrangements and lyrics, the group is now releasing their debut album Světlo a stín mastered by Moimir Papalescu. Look forward to a unique piece of work featuring lyrics by MŠ and experimental electronics compositions by RT.

Five years of existence and more than 300 gigs and show times on the main European festivals, this is the current status of Brno-based band Ghost of You. After their successful debut album Glacier and The City in 2015, last year they released the new album Black Yoga combining their typical psychedelic moments with almost art-rock sound. Broken “epileptic” rhythmics accompanied by straight patterns, expressive guitars, elaborate synths and fragile vocals.

Just like the Little Man, you may discover that when you’re missing something, after wandering the world and fighting with monsters, you will find it nearby. Actually just round the corner.

This performance inspired by a puppet film of the same name was prepared by Divadlo b which was founded by former and current members of the Buchty and loutky theatre and their friends. Apart from the film, they drew inspiration also from the original book The Little Man’s Great Journey by Lenka Uhlířová and Jiří Stach.
The performance is 40 minutes long and is suitable for children from 3 years of age.

A gaming session by Natálie Kratochvílová playing the game Limbo screened live on a wall will be accompanied by live music by Ventolin. It is a variation on the classical model of silent film (the game’s sounds are turned off and the game itself has a noir character) combined with sport and music. The gamer needs to overcome the obstacles of the games, the audiences cheer and Ventolin, as a musician, reacts to this interaction. The result is a unique film-sport performance with a considerable amount of improvisation.

In 2010, I began composing my first songs as Mirorr Karate. They were always slow and sad. Two years later, when we moved to Berlin with Fiordmoss, I founded Čáry života. Switching to Czech seemed to me as a step towards honesty and openness. Čáry are my diary and every song is about someone I know or met.

Stínítko recapitulates the last 6 years of my life. It is partly a “best of” compilation and partly a mix of other things. I recorded the songs myself on my computer in apartments where I used to live. Each of the recorded songs is a 150th version of itself. They vary both sound- and composition-wise depending on the time and place they were made. Stínítko may not be the most coherent album in the world, but it shows elements of time-lapse and reflects my development.

Katarzia is a Slovak producer, lyrics writer and singer living in Prague. Her clever lyrics are closer to rap, her band is somewhere between jazz and pop. Soft songs about human relationships have nuances of 90’s Slovak popular music, flirting with fragments of electronic synths, hip hop and cinematic atmosphere. Her discography includes three albums and in 2018, she won the Radiohead Award for her single Kde sa slzy berú from the the film Piata loď (Little Harbour). In collaboration with producer Pjoni, she composed award-winning music and lyrics to the performance of Antigona at the Slovak National Theatre.

Karel Jaromír Erben’s classic fairy tale The Apple Maiden as never seen before, told with phonograph records and other odds and ends. It's got everything it is supposed to: a brave prince, a beautiful princess under a spell and an old crone, who wants to have the prince to herself.
The performance is suitable for children from 4 years of age, lasts about 50 minutes and is interactive and almost participational.

Prepared by: Jakub Folvarčný

Come play the kinds of games you used to play when you were a kid! Or perhaps some folk games that are a little less active. Game designer Adriaan will lead the group to play various games that are still fun – or perhaps even more fun – now that we’re all serious and responsible adults.

To clarify: this session is primarily for grown-ups who think they’re too grown up to play physical games, but kids are obviously welcome to join as well!

WWW were formed in Prague at the beginning of 1990s and were one of the first Czech bands to experiment with rap. Their music is an original combination of hip hop, industrial, electronics and free composition. Lyrics by Lubomír Typlt full of poetic devices and lyrics by Ondřej Anděra using the rhythmic possibilities of our language provoke the audiences to engage the imaginations. WWW headlined several big music festivals in the Czech Republic and Slovakia such as Colours of Ostrava and Pohoda Festival.

Space Love are Aka 47 and Voodoo, a duo of explorers from the stars, whose precinct is the planet Earth and who work faster than the speed of light. Their job has become passion and they have become humanity’s biggest fans. Their mission follows up on the work of geneticists who have created conditions to support life in this zone. A + V were sent to revise the current situation on planet E and they have been doing so 24/7. Their discography includes Ash Tar She Ran, Alien Tears, Disco Inferno, Horizont událostí, DRON and 666 KM/H.

That was back when Doggie and Pussycat still ran a household together. Three tales from the popular children’s book by Czech painter, illustrator and writer Josef Čapek as performed by the Spolek třeboňského loutkového divadla.
The performance takes about 60 minutes and is suitable for children from 3 years of age.

Prepared by: Augustin Kotil

Last March, Amanita Design released into the rocks of the world an outcry of a neurotic fluff ball named Chuchel and his bald helper/rival Kekel who repeatedly try to get at least to the cherry stalk in a grotesque game. But the more we want something, the likelier it is that we lose it. Echoes came back very soon and so Chuchel, apart from excited reviews, got a “game Oscar” from the Independent Games Festival. The game will be played live by its author himself, Jaromír Plachý, who will be accompanied by the band DVA (who made the game’s soundtrack) in its so far most synthesizered form. “It’s just adowable” says Martin Macháček from Radio Wave when describing the game.

Dukla is a Prague-based band playing guitar pop with Czech lyrics. So far, Lukáš Vydra and Josef Hradílek have released two albums – Vinohrady and Život perfektní. Nostalgically-romantic naïve lyrics resonate with the band’s melancholic sound and the performance of both musicians is honest.

"Market is a hot new band on the Prague scene. In recent months, they published two singles followed by the album Art Star at the end of May. It has a clever and elaborate sound enriching the post-punk aesthetics with saxophone and synthesizer," Fullmoon zine writes about Market.

The bears went to gather honey so their little cottage is empty. Mášenka is bored in the forest so she gets into the cottage through a window. And what will happen next?
The performance is suitable for children from 3 years of age and lasts 45 minutes.

Prepared by: Dora Bouzková, Světlana Khaletskaya

A band with their own material combining music with theatre, poetry and stand-up comedy. Every aspect is world-class as the members are: Jakub Foll (a two time Czech slampoetry champion), David Hlaváč (composer and pianist, winner of the Anděl award), Václav Jelínek (guitarist and world-class juggler – Bratři v tricku) and Jan Moc (one of the best Czech instrumentalists superbly combining drums and violin and the possessor of the voice of Kurt Combine).