ANI-MASTERS: PIONEERS OF CZECH ANIMATION

Name: ANI-MASTERS: PIONEERS OF CZECH ANIMATION
Start: 2025-09-30T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-30T19:45:00+01:00
Location: Glasgow Film Theatre

Schedule

Tue Sep 30 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Glasgow Film Theatre | Glasgow, SC

One of the most renowned film traditions globally, 20th century Czech animation is known for its craftsmanship, political and social subversiveness, and often surreal storytelling. In this instalment of our ever-popular animation series, we focus exclusively on the works of several Czech ‘Ani-masters’, exploring this rich and imaginative landscape by taking the viewers on a five-decade-long journey through its many wonders and marvels.
We begin with the abstract short Fantaisie Érotique, doubling as both an experimental work of colour animation and a soap ad, representing the earliest stages of Czech animation. Along the way, we chart the many rich and imaginative worlds conjured by these ani-masters: a local Czech vigilante fights off the SS in Springman and the SS; a wayward blue apron goes on a surreal adventure with their paper-plane companion in Blue Apron; European civilisation faces extinction in the Bruegelian masterpiece Turris Babel.