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Soul-Things 2022
Filmstill A Quiet Week in the House
A Quiet Week in the House
Jan Švankmajer
Symbols from the depths of our soul follow their own logic. With the help of a dream machine, a man is confronted with the personal myths that he has long carried around subconsciously.
Filmstill A Quiet Week in the House

A Quiet Week in the House

Tichý týden v domě
Jan Švankmajer
Soul-Things 2022
Experimental Film
Czechoslovakia
1969
20 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

In keeping with the inscrutability of their existence, a very special logic seems to be needed to decode symbols from the depths of our soul. Švankmajer uses a kind of home-made dream machine to confront the protagonist with the personal myths that he has carried around subconsciously throughout his life and that even as an adult make him suffer like a helpless kid.

Malte Stein

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Director
Jan Švankmajer
Script
Jan Švankmajer
Cinematographer
Svatopluk Malý, Karel Suzan
Editor
Helena Lebdusková
Producer
Erna Kmínková, Jirí Vanek
Animation
Zdenek Sob
Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Black Days
Black Days
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
The invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968 from a Slovak perspective. Politicians and the population search for an appropriate attitude between caution and determination.
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Black Days

Čierne dni
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
Czechoslovakia
1968
30 minutes
Slovak
Subtitles: 
English

“Stay calm and level-headed!” Endless armoured convoys, radio stations broadcasting their potentially last announcements and the Slovak Communist Party meeting Czech party representatives. Shaky images and wailing sirens testify to the tension as Warsaw Pact troops march into Bratislava, too, to suppress the Prague Spring.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
Cinematographer
Vladimír Holloš, Leopold Bródy, Pavel Čilek, Oskar Šághy, Mikuláš Fodor, Rudolf Ferko
Editor
Juraj Lexmann, Anna Forischová
Producer
Československý film Bratislava
Sound
Jozef Kováčik, Jaroslav Kopernický, Alexander Pallós, Ján Fabián
Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Confusion
Confusion
Evald Schorm
Secretly filmed footage of the suppression of the Prague Spring: hidden in archives for decades and screened 22 years later to the beat of Tchaikovsky.
Filmstill Confusion

Confusion

Zmatek
Evald Schorm
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
Czechoslovakia
1969
36 minutes
Czech
Subtitles: 
English

No images of value but “confused material.” For decades, footage secretly filmed in August 1968 in Prague was hidden in archives under this label. Evald Schorm recovered the illegal material and composed it to the beat of Tchaikovsky recordings, in keeping with its expressive nature. The film could finally be publicly shown in 1990.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Evald Schorm
Cinematographer
Stanislav Milota, Jaromír Kallista, Jiří Macák, Ivan Vojnár, Jozef Ort-Šne, Jozef Ort-Šnep
Editor
Vlasta Styblíková
Producer
Krátký Film Praha
Beyond Animation 2023
Filmstill The Little Mole and the TV
The Little Mole and the TV
Zdeněk Miler
The little mole and the gardener in a violent neighbourhood dispute. Incited by a silly TV report, the former’s underground home and the latter’s colourful garden come under threat.
Filmstill The Little Mole and the TV

The Little Mole and the TV

Krtek a televizor
Zdeněk Miler
Beyond Animation 2023
Animated Film
Czechoslovakia
1970
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Welcome to real life, little mole! Incited by a television report, the comfortable coexistence of the gardener and the builder of mounds is threatened, and not just that, so is the mole’s cosy home underground. Rarely did the colourful Czech animation series for children show such a serious and brutal fight for existence.

André Eckardt

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Director
Zdeněk Miler
Score
Miloš Vacek