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The Design(1981)

Animation

Status: Released

Date: 1981-01-01

61%

18 Votes

Time: 0h 6m

Overview:

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.

Languages: No Language.

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

ProductionCompanies:

Krátký film Praha

Movie: The Design

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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.
Release Date
1981-01-01
Average
6.1
Rating:
3.0 starts
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Genres
Animation
Languages:
No Language
Keywords
satire short film

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