The Pied Piper + Jiří Barta Shorts (1986)
de Jirí Barta
Deaf Crocodile Films - 16 septembre 2025
Titre Original :
Audio : DTS-HD Stereo (sans langage)
Sous-Titres : English
Durée : 0h56
Format : Blu Ray / import US
Zone : A
Genre : Fantasy, Horreur, Animation
Synopsis
"The Pied Piper" is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches inspired by German Expression. A savage portrait of greed run amok and one of the great masterpieces of stop-motion animation.
Contenu
Disc One
- THE PIED PIPER feature, restored by Craig Rogers for Deaf Crocodile
- Jiří Barta’s short film THE VANISHED WORLD OF GLOVES, a marvelous tour through cinema history told through animated gloves (1982, 16 min.)
- CHRONICLE OF THE PIED PIPER, a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta’s masterpiece (1985, 13 min., dir. Miroslava Humplíková) – in Czech with English subtitles
- Video interview with director Jiří Barta, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile
- Audio commentary by Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company and film critic & historian Peter Hames
Disc Two
- Six Barta short films, newly restored by Deaf Crocodile:
- RIDDLES FOR A CANDY (1978, 8 min.) In Barta’s debut short, a fantastical anteater-shaped creature must solve complicated riddles posed by a magical book
- DISC JOCKEY (1980, 10 min.). Everyday life is a world of discs: plates, ashtrays, buttons, a copy of “Abbey Road,” in Barta’s satire of empty modern life
- THE DESIGN (1981, 6 min.). An apartment block comes to life on a drafting board, in Barta’s critique of state-socialist housing
- A BALLAD ABOUT GREEN WOOD (1983, 11 min.) A miniature masterpiece about the occult mysteries of earth, sky, stone, wood and snow
- THE LAST THEFT (1987, 21 min.) Barta’s spectral ghost story follows a thief who breaks into an apparently-abandoned mansion to loot it of its treasures
- THE CLUB OF THE LAID OFF (1989, 25 min.) Barta’s disturbing stop-motion gem is set in a decrepit apartment where wooden mannequins mimic their almost-human "lives"
- New video interview with director Jiří Barta about his short films, moderated by Dennis Bartok
- New visual essay narrated by Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company, film critic & historian Peter Hames and edited by Ryan Verrill of Someone’s Favorite Productions
- New artwork by Beth Morris
- Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion