Program - Czech Horizon: Music Videos + Commissioned Works

Czech Horizon: Music Videos + Commissioned Works

Irvin Venyš & Epoque Quartet: Cimpoiasca

Barbora Halířová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

Czech music video Cimpoiasca boasts superb animation and plays with folklore elements and many visual ideas. Made by a FAMU graduate, the music video plunges into a nightmare and tells the story of a female friendship that is pungently delicious, just like homemade plum brandy.

Irvin Venyš & Epoque Quartet: Cimpoiasca

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

HappyRadio: Wolfeater

Philippe Kastner | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

Wolfeater is an experimental musical project with influences in genres like industrial, metal and alternative rock music. It combines semi-realistic rotoscoping with stylised cartoonish gore to achieve a surreal blend that (hopefully) entertains the eye and disturbs the mind.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Gosheven: Until Exhaustion

Magdalena Hejzlarová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

First, growth seems unlimited, then a peak comes; we break and vanish and again and again, the game of life. Behind this circle, an everlasting nostalgia is present.

This graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, with a penchant for visual experiments made her latest music video in the Golly open-source program.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

TEDx Untold

Eliška Oz, Lee Oz | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

The opening video for TedX from Vienna, focusing on the Untold. TedX is a series of live lectures and performances organised independently but with direct ties to the more popular TED. This short video made by the Anifilm 2021 visual identity designers uses their unmistakeable claymation style.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Gregor Mendel and the Mystery of Peas

David Súkup | Czech Republic | 2022 | 4 min

As a little boy, Johann asked many questions and spent his whole life searching for answers. In their short animated film made for the Brno Observatory and Planetarium, Vendula Chalánková and Ján Obyšovský follow the life story of the modest scientist from Hynčice.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

CI3: Obzor

Alexandra Májová, Martin Máj | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

This poetic music video by Alexandra Májová and Martin Máj takes us to an imaginary landscape where we see simple symbols representing a problematic relationship between a man and a woman. The music video’s graphic aesthetics is dominated by a motif of hands manipulating the heroes against a backdrop of a thematised horizon.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Akira – Comics Trailer

Lukáš Bača | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

A teaser for the iconic manga series Akira, published in Czech for the first time. The teaser animates scenes from the comic book and introduces its world to potential readers. Akira is a cyberpunk manga popular worldwide thanks to the legendary animated film.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Incon – Fits to Your Home

Luboš Vacke | Slovakia, Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

This puppet commercial humorously promotes windows you can buy, for instance, when peaceful moments at your home spent listening to your favourite vinyl are disrupted by unwanted sounds from outside.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab: General Goodstore

Iris Hobson-Mazur, Michaela Matějková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

A music video created for the song by the Pilsen-based band leads us through a bizarre-looking shop in the middle of nowhere. Our tour guide is a questionable character in a bowler hat, who may not be as friendly as he seems. The store contains all number of different bizarre products, even leading us through portals into different worlds.

Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab: General Goodstore

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

The Way to School

Dorota Březinová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

A journey to school from the perspective of a boy suffering from depression and anxiety. This suggestive black-and-white spot made using non-traditional sand animation was created for the project Blázníš? No a! (Getting Crazy? So What!) coordinated by Fokus Prague.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Zapomělsem: Kdesi

Dita Stuchlíková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

This music video for the song Kdesi by Zapomělsem is based on two meanings of the Czech word ‘kdesi’. The word originally means ‘somewhere’ and its colloquial variant ‘kdesi’, the contracted version of ‘kde jsi’, means ‘where are you’? The music video uses natural materials like moss and foam to represent various places. The author also creates a collage from the word ‘kdesi’ written in various fonts to represent searching.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Industry – Opening Credits

Jan Wolf | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

The opening credits of a Czech Television documentary series broadcast since September 2021. Limited colourisation of the credits supplemented only by yellow refers to an older factory environment and to the robotisation of current production.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Pokáč: Kouření je hnusný zvyk

Antonín Chod, Ondřej Brýna, Silvie Radová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 2 min

This comical music video for Czech musician Pokáč portrays various situations experienced by active and potential smokers in order to (hopefully) convince the younger audience that smoking is bad. The authors study at the Secondary School of Business, Applied Art and Design in Pilsen, and this music video is their first collaboration.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Chained

Barbora Halířová | Czech Republic, Poland | 2021 | 2 min

Home, family, solidarity, help, independence, human being… These are just some of the words that resonated strongly in the stories of women from the Kuchinate organisation, helping female African refugees find a place in Israel through the craft of crocheting. The film follows the story of a woman who has lost her home and is forced to set out to find a better future.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Kvítek: Ten sen

Anastázie Rainischová, Julie Černá, Ondřej Salava, Petra Mikolášová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

This music video was created as the final assignment at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Four first-year students faced the challenge of combining their different approaches to visual style and animation itself. The central motifs of this film are the range of cartoon animation and building friendships, metaphorically shown in the theme of this work.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Covid 19

Denisa Jánská | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

This campaign for the Public Health Institute Ostrava was made to support the Covid-19 vaccination initiative. The director is the head of the Studio of Animation at Ostrava University. Under her tutelage, the students established long-term collaboration with the Institute, creating various promotional materials and campaigns for different specialised departments.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Michal Mihok: Mirroring 1

František Topinka, Jan Kolegar, Nikola Micajová, Theodora Pfeffermannová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 6 min

A robot cleaner does his daily routine work in his black-and-white world. But in one of the abandoned streets, a world full of colour and unknown places awaits him… The collective of authors is engaged in teaching animation and other film disciplines at the Aeroškola film and educational institution.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Neklid – spot

Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

A teaser for the podcast series Neklid by Czech Radio Wave. This short teaser bears the author’s distinct artistic style, which festival viewers may know from her film Apart.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Vladimír Mišík & Blind Boys of Alabama: Šedesátá léta

Michaela Pavlátová, Alexandra Májová, Martin Máj | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

For this music video for a song from Vladimír Mišík’s album Noční obraz, graphic artist and director Michaela Pavlátová intergenerationally joined forces with her former students Alexandra Májová and Martin Máj.

Vladimír Mišík & Blind Boys of Alabama: Šedesátá léta

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Windows to Prehistory

Jan Sklenář | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

One of many animations made for the new, popular paleontological exhibition Windows to Prehistory in the National Museum in Prague. When a boy goes to see the exhibition with his grandparents, they trigger a series of short scenes from individual geological periods, starting in prehistory and ending with the modern-day museum visitors.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Září: Tajný vzkaz

Martin Kukal | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

Weird things happen in a strange but beautiful garden. A young boy lives here, picks the fruit that grows in it and observes the beauty that flourishes here, but he is sad because he has no one to share his life with. But something is changing in the garden. Something is about to happen.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Dwarves

Marie Nováčková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

A commercial for Kredum, makers of original rings. The video, sent to customers on their big day, also expresses thanks and congratulates the owners of Kredum wedding rings on their wedding. Animator Marie Nováčková studied animation in the Pilsen Studio of Animation.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sunday Baking – Opening Credits

Pavla Dudová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

The opening sequence of the programme Pečení na neděli (Sunday Baking) was made by Czech Television’s long-time collaborator Pavla Dudová. She used watercolours to depict an idyllic rural landscape projected into a real kitchen.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Pan Lynx: Výlety do temnoty

Martin Šafus, Michal Skořepa | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

Through a glass pyramid in his hands, Michal’s sinister alter ego Mr. Lynx (half human, half lynx) transports him to mysterious worlds of dark forests, groves and deserts. They confront each other in pitch darkness.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

One World 2022

Matyáš Trnka | Czech Republic | 2022 | 1 min

A simple, but all the more telling graphic jingle of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. It uses the symbol of feet to portray conflict – shoeless white feet encounter black feet wearing boots. Footprints and bootprints aren’t the only things that remain, however, and something else becomes coloured with the relevant colour.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

How the Johannites Came to Bohemia

Jan Míka | Czech Republic | 2021 | 6 min

An animated film about the formation of the Order of Saint John and its beginnings in Bohemia, made for the Museum of the Middle Pootaví in Strakonice. It will captivate viewers with its technical execution, combining animation techniques giving a historic lecture with an original visual style.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Online catalogue

Czech Horizon: Music Videos + Commissioned Works

Irvin Venyš & Epoque Quartet: Cimpoiasca

HappyRadio: Wolfeater

Gosheven: Until Exhaustion

TEDx Untold

Gregor Mendel and the Mystery of Peas

CI3: Obzor

Akira – Comics Trailer

Incon – Fits to Your Home

Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab: General Goodstore

The Way to School

Zapomělsem: Kdesi

Industry – Opening Credits

Pokáč: Kouření je hnusný zvyk

Chained

Kvítek: Ten sen

Covid 19

Michal Mihok: Mirroring 1

Neklid – spot

Vladimír Mišík & Blind Boys of Alabama: Šedesátá léta

Windows to Prehistory

Září: Tajný vzkaz

Dwarves

Sunday Baking – Opening Credits

Pan Lynx: Výlety do temnoty

One World 2022

How the Johannites Came to Bohemia