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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky
Keywords
- satire
- short film
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Top Crew
Jiří Barta · Director, Writer
Miloslav Špála · Cinematographer
Helena Lebdušková · Editor
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