Jaromír Kallista

Alchemical Furnace (2020)

Jan Svankmajer, at 85 years of age, is one of the most prominent artists of European cinema. His work has inspired and guided generations of directors, and represents a sharp and merciless exploration of human nature which is entirely unique. When he decid ...

Insect (2018)

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director's instructions. It's clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of "The Insect Play", a f ...

Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010)

Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life - one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of his dreams. Eugene finds a way of entering his dream-world at will and finds out about his childhood and wh ...

Lunacy (2005)

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man might have predicted. ...

Jan 69 (2004)

Little Otik (2001)

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her ...

Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)

Six Prague residents pursue bizarre rituals. Mr. Peony builds a chicken costume to wear while enacting homicidal fantasies toward neighbor Mrs. Loubalova, who does the same dressed as a dominatrix. Their mail carrier, Mrs. Malkova, inhales tiny balls of br ...

Food (1996)

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. ...

Faust (1994)

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds hims ...

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1991)

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). ...

Meat Love (1989)

Two pieces of meat fall in love. ...

Flora (1989)

The last moments of a creature made of fruits and vegetables. ...

Alice (1988)

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter ...

Another Kind of Love (1988)

Svankmajer's music video for Hugh Cornwell's "Another Kind of Love. ...

The Legend of the Silver Fir (1973)

According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra pa ...

Rodeo (1973)

Killing the Devil (1970)

A lonely woman gets more than she bargained for when she begins wooing Mr Devil, an insatiable glutton who turns out to be the boyfriend from Hell. ...

Julián odpadlík (1970)

In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had succeeded Constantine after his victory over Gaul, was going through a personal crisis. He sees that the new philosophical trend, Christianity, is as cruel an ...

Confusion (1969)

Showing his own original footage of Prague Spring, director Evald Schorm describes the atmosphere these days in 1968. ...

Prague Nights (1969)

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In "The ...

The End of a Priest (1969)

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka. ...

„Rakev ve snu viděti...“ (1968)

The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. The reformed petty swindler Felix Pacínek (Bohumil Smída ...

Klec pro dva (1968)

A simple print worker selflessly cares for his sick mother. He spends all his free time with her and the only hobby he indulges in from time to time is model railways. But the arrival of a beautiful girl changes everything. The hero suddenly falls into a l ...

The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)

A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man. ...

Long Live the Republic (1965)

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can't defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is a ...

Ceiling (1962)

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly sub ...

The Week Starts on Friday (1962)

A short documentary about the production of movie marquee art for cinemas in Prague. ...

Kouzelný kopec (2023)

Documentary about Barrandov studios. ...

Engi – Sound Designer Ivo Špalj (2023)

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father Ivo Špalj talk about his life, career, and working methods. Over the course of his long life, sound designer Ivo Špalj (*19 ...

Food (1996)

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. ...

Corpus delicti (1991)

The subject of this film, which takes an analytical look at the life of all of us with an analytical eye, is the evil microbe that has slowly infiltrated the organism of the Czech nation. Through the intertwining fates of three couples, it evokes domestic ...