The Pied Piper
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Preceded by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski's 3D short film Cochemare
In the presence of both filmmakers
Blending animation, live action, and stereoscopic 3D, Cochemare is an immersive, tactile, and sensory experience. As the viewer journeys from the mystical Forest of Storms to the orbiting International Space Station, the film forces us to confront our notions of voyeurism, femininity, and the separation of body and mind.
An astonishing adaptation of a traditional tale transcribed by the Grimm brothers (The Pied Piper of Hamelin), Krysar (which in Czech means “the rat hunter”) is a unique film in the history of animation, an unclassifiable object in terms of its aesthetic, which is influenced by numerous modernist currents (Expressionism, Constructivism, Cubism, etc.), its use of the stop-motion technique (puppets and sculpted wooden sets) and the inventiveness of its soundtrack.
Jiří Barta
Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director. Many of his films use wood as a medium for animation. Among his notable films are the 1986 film The Pied Piper. In 2007, he released his first computer-animated short film, Domečku, vař, animated in a studio of Alkay Animation. He then released a new puppet-animated feature film, Toys in the Attic, in 2009.
