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.
Genre: Animation
Stars:
Crew: Jiří Barta (Director), Jiří Barta (Writer), Petr Skoumal (Music), Miloslav Špála (Cinematography), Helena Lebdušková (Editor)
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: No Language
Studio: Krátký film Praha
Runtime: 6 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1981
IMDb: 4.9
Keywords:satire, short film
