Jirí Barta

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all. (imdb)

It starts with a man chopping some wood, the pieces of which then begin to dance and march, and then a single piece with goes on an adventure and transmogrifies into various other substances such as a bird, ice, and rock. (imdb comments)

A day in a life of a disc jockey who gets up in the evening and spends nights in a disco with his round discs. (bcdb.com)

"Poslední lup" is a short film involving a young man who is breaking into an old house and stealing valuables that have just been left laying around, and as he is collecting stray pearls he realizes that there are feet and legs at this table, and looks up to find that he's not alone. (imdb comments)

[Hádanky za bonbón] involves a series of forms and creatures made out of confections and drawings in a storybook mode, with page turnings and a childish narrator mimicking animal sounds and grumblings. (imdb comments)

A modern version of the medieval German legend about a rat-catcher who punishes the sinful and insolent town of Hammeln (Hamelin). The original legend serves only as a basis for a completely new piece from both the artistic and cinematic points of view. (bcdb.com)

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay. (imdb)

A short animation showing the design of a block of flats made to repress individuality.

A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins and a spiritual rebirth. Among the films are "Ape," which features a couple fighting over a cooked monkey every night; "The Story of the Cat and the Moon," which is a tale of unrequited love; and "Gentle Spirit," which is based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story. (Netflix)