Online catalogue

The thoughts of the first president of the Czech Republic come to life in this student film made by a filmmaker from the Russian city of Magnitogorsk who, after finishing animation studies in Yekaterinburg, moved to Zlín to get his master’s degree at the Tomas Bata University. In this film, Havel’s inspirational thoughts are underlined by a clear and straightforward artistic style.

In her latest puppet film, this acclaimed Finnish director has the last Catalonian bullfighting arena redeveloped into a shopping mall. An old matador then has to make living in dubious nightclubs around Barcelona. One night, one of these nightclubs is visited by the bored president of Russia.

People can sometimes understand each other without using words. That is definitely the case of the two heroes of this pleasantly colourful film made by a student of the Tomas Bata University in Zlín. The two protagonists meet at a railroad crossing and together they spend several fragile moments in uninterrupted silence.

This film made by a FAMU student combines several animation techniques including photographically accurate images which contribute to this ani-doc’s authenticity. The truthfulness of her testimony is emphasised by the fact that the filmmaker herself suffered from anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder which is often hard to diagnose.

One day, a villager stops at a watering place and is horrified by what he sees. The water is unusually red. As indicated by the name, the film’s author, a graduate of the Higher School of Art in Ostrava, was inspired by the culture of Japan. Herumetto, a safety helmet, plays a very important part in this action story.

The austere black-and-white and geometrical artistic style of this film made by a Belarusian filmmaker underscores both the colours of the cube and the problems surpassing the film’s protagonist. What to do with the tricky puzzle? What if solving it brings new problems?

In her film experiment, a student from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen who also teaches animation to children uses obsolete objects, plastic wrap, foil and an overhead projector to create various moods. They appeal to the viewers not only thanks to their visuality, but also thanks to a poem of the same name by Ewald Murrer.

Thanks to the unmistakeable style of the director, a student from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, this critical essay on the anthropocentric nature of space colonisation is sarcastic and caustic.  Just as in his other films, he combines several techniques and materials, from drawings to the use of real objects to sculpting clay.

The author, a student of the Tomas Bata University in Zlín, says that the most important theme in her films is vomiting. However, The Fabulous Good-Looker is a personal and biting testimony about her brother who personalises 'hopelessness and self-pity', in which she combines various techniques and in addition to vomiting, she explores deeper topics.