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In his experimental film, Croatian student Porin Rašpica from the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek compares the forces of traditionally opposite principles – human, technical and natural. To depict the struggle for domination, he chose coloured sand capable of smoothly portraying the film’s comprehensible visual symbolism.

This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people prematurely exposed to death.

This film was created during the director’s study stay in Sweden as an artistic commentary on pornography, its means of expression and influence on people. By using grotesque deformation and exaggeration, the film points out the falseness of pornography as a modern myth and reveals its absurdity through a typical script.

The usage of puppets in this interpretation of the events of 23rd February 1948 becomes more than symbolic. The main protagonists of the film are Klement Gottwald, Antonín Zápotocký, Rudolf Slánský and Edvard Beneš. Beneš’s puppet version finds itself under pressure of the other protagonists. The film was made at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

The film’s director, a Korean student of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, uses captivating and sometimes even demonically scary images to deal with the topic of eternity. In her work, she is inspired by art brut and indigenous cultures.

Bloody Riot is an animated film about menstruation and situations that men can only imagine. The stars of this film are hygienic products such as menstrual pads and tampons. Their escapades give a wide audience an idea of situations that commonly happen during the menstrual cycle.

A seemingly automated and functional mechanism doesn’t tolerate any deviations or mistakes. In case of a music box, a false tone, however weak it may be, can have immeasurable consequences. In her film, the director who studies at the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, points out that the existence of such tones doesn’t always have to be undesirable.

To commemorate a great deal of important anniversaries in the history of the Czech and Slovak Republics, this short anidoc about the meaning of the number eight in the lives of its protagonists was created at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. A number of more or less important events from the lives of the film’s protagonists are put in highly subversive contrast with the “big eights” in our history.

The author sees his project as a candy with a filling made of interacting ingredients. The first one is post-apocapitalism, the second temporality, the third posthumanism and the fourth the Anthropocene and Capitalocene. The last ingredient is a binding agent called the internet – saliva flowing all over the ingredients and giving them all an unpleasant taste.

At the beginning, there was a nit. The Parasites is a story about parasitism that concerns the everyday lives of us all. The destruction of one system is an ideal opportunity for another. This commentary on the historical development and the current political situation made by a student from the Ostrava University appeals to civil responsibility.

This advertisement is advertising the electromagnetic radiation in wavelengths of around 0.1 to 15 kHz that naturally occurs in the atmosphere. With the help of Stephen P. McGreevy's huge recordings archive and using ordinary drywall and simple space illusion we can see this untraditional field of human interest and fascinating natural phenomena.

The political situation forces the citizens to react; Wenceslas Square is filling with people. When one of the protestors gets hungry, the closest solution is a Turkish restaurant on the corner. The man leaves satisfied but he forgets his banner. The waiter must act in order to return it to him in time.

This film oscillating between anidoc, music video and film essay takes us to the delta of the Danube known for its beautiful nature. The author focuses on the area’s transformation from an industrial zone and uses its example to thematize the evolution of thinking and society in post-Communist Europe.