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The Design

1981-01-01
6.1
cs 6m
Animation
Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.

Director

Jiří Barta

Writer

Jiří Barta

Cinematography

Miloslav Špála

Editor

Helena Lebdušková

Music

Petr Skoumal

satire short film

Status

Released

Countries

  • Czechoslovakia

Companies

  • Krátký film Praha