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Jiří Barta is a Director, Writer and Art Direction Tchèque born on 26 november 1948 at Prague (Republique tcheque)
Jiří Barta (born 26 November 1948) is a Czech stop-motion animation director. His films, many of which used the medium of wood for animation, garnered critical acclaim and won many awards, but after the fall of the communist government in Czechoslovakia he was unable to release anything for about 15 years (a situation similar to that faced by Russian animator Yuriy Norshteyn). Throughout the 1990s he tried to find funding for a feature film called The Golem, but ultimately only managed to complete a short pilot in 1996 (which can be viewed online). In 2006 he released his first computer-animated short film, and on March 5, 2009 he released a new puppet-animated feature film which was geared more towards a children's audience.
En 1986 sort Krysar, le joueur de flûte (Krysař) qui est adapté du Joueur de flûte de Hamelin, légende médiévale allemande. C'est une œuvre d'une grande originalité sur les plans plastique, narratif et technique.
Après l'effondrement du régime soviétique et la fin des studios d'état, le financement des films d'animation en Tchécoslovaquie devient plus complexe. Jiří Barta travaille sur un projet de long-métrage inspiré du Golem de Gustav Meyrink, mais ne parvient pas à trouver les financements et le film, débuté en 1993, reste inachevé.
En 2009 sort Drôle de grenier ! (Na půdě aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?) où de courageux jouets, tout droit sortis d'une valise oubliée dans un grenier, partent pour un voyage rempli de dangers et de surprises à la recherche de leur amie Madeleine, capturée par la Tête, chef de l'Empire du mal. Les auteurs de cette histoire redonnent vie aux objets les plus désuets, relégués dans un grenier poussiéreux, en leur "bricolant" une nouvelle apparence et en les animant.
En France, les deux longs métrages de Jiří Barta, Krysar et Dr'ôle de Grenier, ont été distribués en salles.
En 2015, le Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers consacre une grande rétrospective à l'auteur ainsi qu'une exposition.
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Jiří Barta fait ses études à l’École des arts décoratifs de Prague et réalise ses premiers courts métrages dès le milieu des années 1970. Il participe également à la troupe de Karel Makonj qui prône un théâtre de marionnettes pour adultes. Il entre en 1982 au studio Krátký film.En 1986 sort Krysar, le joueur de flûte (Krysař) qui est adapté du Joueur de flûte de Hamelin, légende médiévale allemande. C'est une œuvre d'une grande originalité sur les plans plastique, narratif et technique.
Après l'effondrement du régime soviétique et la fin des studios d'état, le financement des films d'animation en Tchécoslovaquie devient plus complexe. Jiří Barta travaille sur un projet de long-métrage inspiré du Golem de Gustav Meyrink, mais ne parvient pas à trouver les financements et le film, débuté en 1993, reste inachevé.
En 2009 sort Drôle de grenier ! (Na půdě aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?) où de courageux jouets, tout droit sortis d'une valise oubliée dans un grenier, partent pour un voyage rempli de dangers et de surprises à la recherche de leur amie Madeleine, capturée par la Tête, chef de l'Empire du mal. Les auteurs de cette histoire redonnent vie aux objets les plus désuets, relégués dans un grenier poussiéreux, en leur "bricolant" une nouvelle apparence et en les animant.
En France, les deux longs métrages de Jiří Barta, Krysar et Dr'ôle de Grenier, ont été distribués en salles.
En 2015, le Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers consacre une grande rétrospective à l'auteur ainsi qu'une exposition.
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Filmography of Jiří Barta (4 films)
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Toys in the Attic (2009)
, 1h14Directed by Jiří Barta, Vivian Schilling
Origin Republique tcheque
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Forest Whitaker, Jiří Lábus, Ivan Trojan, Cary Elwes, Vivian Schilling, Marcelo Tubert
Rating63%
In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Sir Handsome, the lovable Teddy Bear, a Mechanical Mouse and the plasticine creature, Laurent. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out on a wondrous and daring adventure to rescue her from the all-powerful Head of State. Originally produced in the Czech language, the meticulously crafted animated feature is set in a magical world of toys and knick-knacks stored in the attic of a home in Prague. Following the symbolism of the Cold War era that impacted director Barta and the Czech Republic, the world of the attic is divided into the land of happy toys in the west and the land of evil in the east. The despotic Head of State rules over the evil empire of the east with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotted vegetables. When the lovely "Buttercup" is kidnapped and held prisoner by The Head, it is up to her friends - a teddy bear, a mechanical mouse and marionette puppet - to cross the international boundary and attempt their daring rescue. A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.
Cartoon Noir (1999)
Directed by Jiří Barta, Suzan Pitt
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Rating59%
The Pied Piper (1986)
, 53minutesDirected by Jiří Barta
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Fantasy, Horror, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Jiří Lábus
Rating77%
The film starts with the image of a mechanism beginning to work - as the gears move (behind the scenes), the sun slowly rises up over a town and a new day begins. The town, Hamelin, is shown to be one which is full of corrupted, petty people, where everything is wasted and money and social rank are the first priority. The waste leads to a gigantic rat infestation at night. As the town leaders meet to decide on the best course of action, a stranger appears in the doorway - a hooded piper who with the sound of his playing can entice rats to run over a cliff to their deaths. The town leaders are very happy and offer him 1000 gold coins as payment if he would get rid of all of the town's rats. The piper accepts, and begins walking through the city, leading all of the rats behind him. At the same time, a jewellery seller who was among the elite group of leaders walks into a woman's home and asks her to marry him. The woman (who is so far the only character who doesn't look grotesque, implying innocence) refuses. The jeweller persists, but before he can do anything the piper passes by her house and the jewellery seller is forced to jump out of the window at the sound of the music. After all of the rats jump into a lake, the piper comes back into town, on the way once again stopping the jeweller's advances on the woman. The piper and the woman sit on the bench together as he plays a beautiful melody that is accompanied by paint-on-wood animation (a complete change of style from the rest of the film).
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Toys in the Attic (2009)
, 1h14Directed by Jiří Barta, Vivian Schilling
Origin Republique tcheque
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Forest Whitaker, Jiří Lábus, Ivan Trojan, Cary Elwes, Vivian Schilling, Marcelo Tubert
Roles Writer
Rating63%
In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Sir Handsome, the lovable Teddy Bear, a Mechanical Mouse and the plasticine creature, Laurent. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out on a wondrous and daring adventure to rescue her from the all-powerful Head of State. Originally produced in the Czech language, the meticulously crafted animated feature is set in a magical world of toys and knick-knacks stored in the attic of a home in Prague. Following the symbolism of the Cold War era that impacted director Barta and the Czech Republic, the world of the attic is divided into the land of happy toys in the west and the land of evil in the east. The despotic Head of State rules over the evil empire of the east with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotted vegetables. When the lovely "Buttercup" is kidnapped and held prisoner by The Head, it is up to her friends - a teddy bear, a mechanical mouse and marionette puppet - to cross the international boundary and attempt their daring rescue. A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.
Art
Wolf's Hole (1987)
, 1h32Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Horror
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63%
A group of teenagers are invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains, without being told how or why they were picked as participants. There are eleven of them, but the camp supervisors insist that there should be only ten, and that one of them is an intruder. As the group find themselves cut off from the outside world, strange things begin to happen; the supervisors seem intent to create an atmosphere of hostility, turning the participants against each other, even urging them to kill each other. The supervisors eventually reveal themselves as extraterrestrials who demand that the group pick one among them to be sacrificed. They refuse, however, and in a panic set the cottage on fire and make a narrow escape on a lift used for timber transport, leaving no man behind.
The Pied Piper (1986)
, 53minutesDirected by Jiří Barta
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Fantasy, Horror, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Jiří Lábus
Roles Art Direction
Rating77%
The film starts with the image of a mechanism beginning to work - as the gears move (behind the scenes), the sun slowly rises up over a town and a new day begins. The town, Hamelin, is shown to be one which is full of corrupted, petty people, where everything is wasted and money and social rank are the first priority. The waste leads to a gigantic rat infestation at night. As the town leaders meet to decide on the best course of action, a stranger appears in the doorway - a hooded piper who with the sound of his playing can entice rats to run over a cliff to their deaths. The town leaders are very happy and offer him 1000 gold coins as payment if he would get rid of all of the town's rats. The piper accepts, and begins walking through the city, leading all of the rats behind him. At the same time, a jewellery seller who was among the elite group of leaders walks into a woman's home and asks her to marry him. The woman (who is so far the only character who doesn't look grotesque, implying innocence) refuses. The jeweller persists, but before he can do anything the piper passes by her house and the jewellery seller is forced to jump out of the window at the sound of the music. After all of the rats jump into a lake, the piper comes back into town, on the way once again stopping the jeweller's advances on the woman. The piper and the woman sit on the bench together as he plays a beautiful melody that is accompanied by paint-on-wood animation (a complete change of style from the rest of the film).