Confession
Pavol Sýkora
A prison film with a touch of Existentialism follows daily routines of a young woman and her fellow inmates.
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Film Archive
A prison film with a touch of Existentialism follows daily routines of a young woman and her fellow inmates: gatherings at the yard, work, hygiene, and quiet stares out of the barred window. Her fate was sealed long before she committed any crime because neither her family, nor our society could give her a hand when she needed it.
Hands
Jozef Zachar
A non-narrative, poetic film examines different ways our hands can be utilized.
Hands
Documentary Film
ČSSR
1963
10 minutes
subtitles:
_without dialogue / subtitles
Credits
Jozef Zachar
Viktor Svoboda
Alfréd Benčič
Jozef Zachar
Eugen Kiss
A non-narrative, poetic film examines different ways our hands can be utilized – they can show aggression, but also create beauty; they can help children to explore the world, and they can be raised as a sign of surrender. Images are juxtaposed to underline the importance of what is outside of the frame – the human agent.
Men from the Gader Valley
Ladislav Kudelka
The film follows hard work of a group of woodcutters who dwell in the forest far away from civilization.
Men from the Gader Valley
Documentary Film
ČSSR
1963
10 minutes
subtitles:
_without dialogue / subtitles
The film follows hard work of a group of woodcutters who dwell in the forest far away from civilization. They live in silence which is interrupted only by sound of chopping axes and falling trees. A haunting soundtrack to their toil was composed by a pioneer of electro-acoustic music, Ilja Zeljenka.
Pearls of the Deep – Segment: At the World Cafeteria
Věra Chytilová
Based on Bohumil Hrabal’s short stories, “Pearls of the Deep”, an eponymous omnibus film was produced in 1966 and became a manifesto of the Czech New Wave.
Pearls of the Deep – Segment: At the World Cafeteria
Credits
Filmové studio Barrandov
Věra Chytilová
Jan Klusák
Jaroslav Kučera
Jiřina Lukešová, Miroslav Hájek
Věra Chytilová
Blažej Bernard
Věra Mrázková, Vladimír Boudník, Alžběta Laštovková, Václav Chochola, Jan Vala, Aleš Košnar, Bohumil Hrabal
Based on Bohumil Hrabal’s collection of short stories, “Pearls of the Deep”, an eponymous omnibus film was produced in 1966 and became a manifesto of the Czech New Wave. Věra Chytilová adapted one of the stories, which begins in the “World” cafeteria with a drunken wedding and a young woman’s suicide. Starting in half-documentary neon light, the film increasingly takes on somnambulistic characteristics.
André Eckardt
André Eckardt
Photographing the House-Dwellers
Dušan Trančík
A traditional, multigenerational family gathers in front of a partially built country house at various occasions.
Photographing the House-Dwellers
Credits
Dušan Trančík
Vladimír Holloš
Dušan Trančík
Dušan Trančík
Eduard Palček
A traditional, multigenerational family gathers in front of a partially built country house at various occasions. Metamorphoses of the building itself, family growth, amusing and sad events, all of it calls for collective photography. Admiration of simple man’s diligence complements ironic emphasis on a paradox of grand illusions vs. everyday reality – comforts of socialism which came at a heavy price.
Water and Work
Martin Slivka
This directorial debut by a pioneer of ethnographic film is a survey on technical monuments utilizing water drive as a source of their power.
This directorial debut by a pioneer of ethnographic film is a survey on technical monuments utilizing water drive as a source of their power. A look back into the world of yesterday using suggestive montage of images and music composed by Ilja Zeljenka based on electronically preserved original sound of water engines.