Jiří Barta Movies

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...

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

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are...

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...

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

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...

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

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures...

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

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...

Seven animated films and the 1987 live-action short “The Last Theft” comprise this collection spotlighting the prodigious talents and...

The story is set in communist Prague of 1950s, a banal coincidence sends a math student Adam on a quest to find the famous Prague Golem and bring it...

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

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

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

In Jiří Barta’s imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a...