HOME Program Magic Animated: The Classic Czech Animation Collection - Short 2
The History of Nature (A Suite)
Jan SVANKMAJER | Czechoslovakia | 1967 | 9 Min | Short / Animation
A eight-part animated portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music. Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.
Antidarwin
Bretislav POJAR | Czechoslovakia | 1969 | 7 Min | Short / Animation
A bitterly ironic animated film in which a man, transformed into an earthworm, tries to wriggle back underground as fast as he can. Why?
Krabs
Vaclav MERGL | Czechoslovakia | 1976 | 11 Min | Short / Animation
A scientist and a soldier try to invent a new weapon of mechanical deadly crabs killing everything that is around. But it all turns against its own purpose.
What Have We Done to Hens
Josef HEKRDLA / Vladimir JIRANEK | Czechoslovakia | 1977 | 6 Min | Short / Animation
Anecdote about a hen bringing eggs brings a simple metaphore of a futuristic world that is ruled only by a production and efficency.
The Vanished World of Gloves
Jiri BARTA | Czechoslovakia | 1982 | 17 Min | Short / Animation
An abandoned 16mm film projects a series of shorts featuring gloves — from lengthy opera gloves to cute mittens — reveling in Valentino-tinged romance as rival gloves face off for the love of their l..
Homunculus
Vaclav MERGL | Czechoslovakia | 1984 | 11 Min | Short / Animation
A modern version of a legend about a living creature that the medieval alchemists made of space matter.
