Jiří Barta

Jiří Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness (2014)

Seven animated films and the 1987 live-action short "The Last Theft" comprise this collection spotlighting the prodigious talents and distinctive cinematic vision of Czech animator Jiri Barta. Slyly amusing and often featuring anti-consumerist motifs, his ...

Yuki Onna (2013)

Deep in the mountains a little Japanese boy called Minokitchi witnesses a tragic event. ...

Toys in the Attic (2009)

In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Sir Handsome, the lovable Teddy Bear, a Mechanical Mouse and the plasticine creature, Laurent. When Buttercup is snatched and ...

Cook, Mug, Cook! (2007)

A portrait of the ordinary life, passing time, routine and the contacts between characters. ...

Cartoon Noir (1999)

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins and a spiritual rebirth. Among the films are "Ape," which features a couple fighting over a cooked monkey ...

Animated Self-Portraits (1989)

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation. ...

Club of the Discarded (1989)

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all. ...

Wolf's Hole (1987)

Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors. ...

The Last Theft (1987)

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned? ...

The Pied Piper (1986)

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative ...

A Ballad About Green Wood (1983)

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film. ...

The Vanished World of Gloves (1982)

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin ...

The Design (1981)

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. ...

Disc Jockey (1980)

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At ...

Riddles for a Candy (1978)

In Jiří Barta's imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic. ...

Bezúčelná procházka Jiřího Barty (1999)

Služební cesta podporučíka Svěráka (1989)

Chronicle Of The Pied Piper (1985)

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta's masterpiece. ...