Jirí Trnka

JIRI TRNKA’S 1950 puppet animation film PRINCE BAJAJA
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From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
A disembodied, ‘live’ hand invades the life of an artist-puppet, instructing him what to create, bringing him TV and newspapers (filled with ‘Hand’ activities), finally compelling him to make sculptures of itself. After his death in frustration, the Hand gives him an ornate State funeral as a great artist of the people. A courageous early work of the Czech renaissance.Read More »

The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.Read More »

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Trnka took a turn into Space Age sci-fi surrealism with this dark, dystopian satire on automatization in which a child traverses a forbidding technological wasteland to meet (surprise!) her uncanny new robotic grandmother.Read More »