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.
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Jiří Barta Director · Miloslav Špála Cinematographer Helena Lebdušková Editor
First release January 1, 1981 · Produced in XC, Czechia · Production Krátký Film Praha
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Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky
Production
Krátký Film Praha
Production
XC · Czechia
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Czech
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
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XC · January 1, 1981
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