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NAVŠTIVTE PRAH

WELCOME TO PRAGUE

Czechoslovakia 1983

Animation // 6 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Dagmar Ferklová
Sound: Ing. Ivo Špalj
Editing: Jiřina Pěčová
Music: Jiří Kolafa
Production: Krátký Film Praha a.s. / Jiri Trnka Studio
Web: www.kratkyfilm.com

An amusing story full of ideas is a parody on the tourists hunting for the highest number of towns and sights visited. A group of tourists run around Prague but all that remains in their heads is a surrealistic cultural mixture.

CURRUCULUM VITAE

Czechoslovakia 1986

Animation // 10 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Zuzana Bukovická, Zdenék Pospišil, Jiři Sevčik
Sound: Ivo Špalj
Editing: Magda Sandersová
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: Krátký Film Praha a.s. / Jiri Trnka Studio
Web: www.kratkyfilm.com

Curriculum vitae’s theme is: We live and learn, that is – ars longa, vita brevis…

PORTRÉT

THE PORTRAIT

Czechoslovakia 1989

Animation // 8 min

A humorous story about contradictory features and antagonisms in mans character. Opposing characteristics such as stinginess and generosity, courage and cowardliness, and honesty and meanness are the topics of the film's episodes. The result of the colourful conflicts is a common, uninteresting citizen.

POSLEDNICH 100 LET MARXISMU LENINISMU

THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS OF MARXISM-LENINISM

Czechoslovakia 1991

Animation // 5 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Martin Procházka
Sound: Ivo Špalj
Editing: Jan Sládek
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: Krátký Film Praha a.s. / Jaromir Kallista
Web: www.kratkyfilm.com

This film could certainly not been produced in pre-Havel times. Its witty metamorphosis of man’s utopian dreams and their deformation reflect the new-found freedoms.

AT' ZIJE MYŠ

LONG LIVE THE MOUSE

Czech Republic 1992

Animation // 6 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Jaroslava Zimová
Sound: Ivo Spalj
Editing: Jirina Pecová
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: Krátký Film Praha a.s. / Studio Bratri v triku
Web: www.kratkyfilm.com

At first sight, this may seem a banal story. A viewer is watching a temperamental animated cartoon with gags comparable to Tex Avery's. He takes the side of a mouse fighting an uneven battle with an enraged tomcat. The mouse wins the fight. The viewer celebrates the mouse's victory but we can see a trap lying at his feet with a mouse that has just been caught in it.

VIVAT EVROPA

VIVAT EUROPA

Czech Republic 1996

Animation // 20 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Milan Rychetský
Sound: Jan Kacian
Editing: Pavel Koutský
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: Anifilm Milan Rychetský

The film consists of several blackouts dealing with the topic of Europe.

KAVÁRNA

CAFEE-HOUSE

Czech Republic 1997

Animation // 8 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Jan Chvojka Martin Procházka
Sound: Jan Kacian
Editing: Jiřina Pěčová
Music: Petr Skoumal
Web: www.kratkyfilm.com

Businessmen, couples of lovers and older ladies meet in a cafe. While outwardly a graceful conversation is being made between them, devastating dramas are taking place in their hearts.

PYGMALION

Czech Republic 2002

Animation // 5 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Martín Procházka
Sound: Viktor Ekrt, Jan Kacian
Editing: Jirina Pecová
Music: Petr Skoumal
Web: www.kratkyfilm.com

A man creates a perfect woman but she leaves him at the end.

ČTYŘI LÁSKY

FOUR LOVES

Czech Republic 2003

Animation // 6 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Martin Procházka
Sound: Jan Kacian, Vladmír Helebrant
Editing: Jiřina Pečová
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: RS agency, Pavel Koutský

The film describes a man’s life in four different stages.

PLASTIC PEOPLE

Czech Republic 2007

Animation // 6 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Sound: Jan Kocian
Editing: Pavel Koutský
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: Pavel Koutský

A cartoon film about plastic surgery, about the balance between being unique and artificial beauty.

O BANKÁCH A LIDECH

ABOUT BANKS AND PEOPLE

Czech Republic 2000

Animation // 10 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Martin Procházka
Sound: Jan Kacian
Editing: Pavel Kutský
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: Createam

An animated promotion film for the Czech National bank, dealing with the history of banking system.

VELRYBY

WHALES

Czech Republic 2007

Animation // 1 min

Director: Pavel Koutský
Script: Pavel Koutský
Animation: Pavel Koutský
Photography: Pavel Koutský
Sound: Jan Kacian
Editing: Pavel Koutský
Music: Petr Skoumal
Production: Pavel Koutský

The film deals with the topic of commercial whale-hunting.