User Reviews

The possibilities of animation, and especially the stop-motion animation that breathes life into everyday objects, never ceases to amaze me. Using anthropomorphic gloves, Jiri Barta creates a condensed history of cinema, from the silent era to our times of science fiction blockbusters.

Have you ever imagined how beloved movies would like played by gloves? Then stop imagining and watch this movie. In here you'll find gloves paying homage to the visual gags and complex sequences of Chaplin and Buster Keaton; re-enacting the famous Buñuel sequences in An Andaluzian Dog of the eye slicing and the ants coming out from a hand; showing the exuberance of Fellini; and Godzilla and Close Encounters of the Third Kind with gloves.

The technical detail of this movie is just impressive. Watch it and rejoice in this lovely homage to cinema.

If you want the history of film condensed and re-enacted by animated gloves, you need to see THIS movie. The most interesting thing about these parodies, however, is the fact that even though they are split into individual sections, each section actually covers a range of different genre movies, from the film-noir heist movie that becomes Godzilla meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to the Eisenstein Soviet era silent masterpieces becoming Triumph of the Will via--yes!--All Quiet on the Western Front.

Wouldn't you be excited to find something like this in a hole? I don't really think much was gained by the narrative of the man watching these shorts ,except as a sort of homage to Svankmajer's approach to consumerism-in-spectatorship, what with the beer and smoking and all; and as a means of breaking up the sub-shorts, which wasn't all that necessary to do. However, it is neat to think about things like this being found.

--PolarisDiB