Featuring pop stars Karel Gott and Marta Kubišová (who later became the director’s second wife) in lead roles, with cameos by the two girls from Chytilová’s Daisies and director Lindsay Anderson as traffic policeman, Martyrs of Love is the most perfect embodiment of Němec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. The nearly dialogue-free music comedy about three timid lovers, which combines aesthetics of 1920s silent slapstick cinema with romantic music of the 1960s, cemented the director’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.
Category: Experimental
At nightfall, Paris gradually envelopes itself in a coat of lights. The activities of the inhabitants are transformed as the night progresses:… go home, eat, sleep, go out, drink, wander, etc. The authors, camera in hand, present us in this film, an evocative look and bright over Paris and Parisians, from dusk to dawn.
A week in the life of a cosmetics salesman who visits beauty salons to beat his way through the after-work hours. His journey across a wintery Switzerland of grey suburbs and villages takes him via hairdressers shops, hotel rooms and sleezy bars to construction sites and fairs, over snow-covered mountains and through spooky shopping zones back to his home parking lot. He meets people of every stripe, chats, argues and remains silent with them and never gets rid of his silent companion, the melancholy of isolation.
Animated film satire of self-indulgence in a hungry world. Rapidly dissolving, reshaping images, made with the aid of a computer, create a stark contrast between abundance and want. A man eats, at first sparingly, but his appetite grows to gluttony, greed, and gratification of every desire. The nightmare that finally haunts him is the one that hangs over our disparate world.
What do painters’ models dream of during their breaks? The fantasy world of a young girl preoccupied with her own beauty… A mix of live action, animation, and video effects.
Eveil is, in a way, the story of humanity transposed through the dreamlike universe of Peter Foldes, who conceived, created and designed this original work. In an absurd and formless world, in continual mutation, a girl wakes up, naked as on the first day. Drawn into a mad dance, she is finally absorbed by computers and reproduced in thousands of living and identical copies that encounter war, cruelty, death, brutality, old age, physical love, and futility.
Animated film conceived and directed by Peter Foldes on a dark scenario that can be seen as a metaphor for human cruelty through the growth of a man from his birth where already a baby, breastfed by his mother, he ends up devouring her. As an adult, he experiences his strength, war and indulges in the destruction of everything within his reach.
With a combination of Hollywood, European and Israeli film, documentary, news coverage and excerpts of ‘live’ footage shot in the West Bank and Gaza strip, Introduction to the end of an argument critiques representation of the Middle East, Arab culture, and the Palestinian people produced by the West.