The Hall of Lost Steps

The Hall of Lost Steps 1964

7.60

In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due to the atomic bomb.

1964

Guernica

Guernica 1978

5.40

The initiation of a young Jewish child into Guernica's world.

1978

The Uninvited Guest

The Uninvited Guest 1991

6.30

A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.

1991

Cars Without a Home

Cars Without a Home 1959

6.30

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.

1959

Aquarius

Aquarius 1955

1

A color puppet film based on the famous ballad of K. J. Erben "Aquarius".

1955

Konečná

Konečná 1970

1

Final train station turnes out to be something much more different...

1970

Ceiling

Ceiling 1962

5.10

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.

1962

Our Mr. Foerster Died

Our Mr. Foerster Died 1963

6.20

On a sunny afternoon an old man speaks to a laundress about his love for Provence, then a black flag is unfurled outside the town monument: news has arrived over the radio that the famous composer Foerster, born in the town, has just died.

1963

Uncle

Uncle 1959

6.50

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

1959

Fugue on the Black Keys

Fugue on the Black Keys 1965

7.00

Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much about the concert as about himself, both as a lonely foreigner and as a human being in cosmos. Here and there he encounters some racist comments, but mostly he just feels the weight of social exclusion because of his otherness, especially when it comes to women. On the morning of the day for his concert the embassy informs him that his whole family has perished. He feels totally broken, although he thinks that everyone holds some pain inside. His piano teacher, a professor at the Academy, looks him up, and tells him that he heard what has happened. The professor advises him to communicate his feelings that evening by using his Bach.

1965