Jiri Barta Toys In The Attic

Watching jiří barta s stop motion masterpiece toys in the attic makes you realize that no amount of movie making budget can substitute for the power of a talented visionary with a clever story a dedicated crew a camera and an attic full of dusty old rubbish.

Jiri barta toys in the attic. Jirí barta was born on november 26 1948 in prague czechoslovakia. The world of the attic is divided into the land of happy toys in the west and the land of evil in the east. This short film was. When buttercup is snatched and taken off to the land of evil her pals set out to rescue her.

The setting for the film was inspired by the cultural and political contrast of the cold war era and its impact on director jiri barta and the czech republic. When i found an old exercise book with my drawing of a train made from old train tickets with a piece of cigarette for the smokestack the kid in my imagination reappeared. It s a celebration of imagination and invention. Jiri barta s amazing new film is not just a masterpiece of animation.

He is a director and writer known for toys in the attic 2009 the pied piper 1986 and diskzokej 1980. Synopsis in an attic full of discarded junk a pretty doll called buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends the marionette prince charming lazy teddy bear and the plasticine creature schubert. Discarded items from antique toys to rotten potatoes take on a life of their own when discarded in the attic of a czech home during the cold war. Jiří barta and edgar dutka wrote the script originally titled whose birthday is it today before it was renamed toys in the attic from 1998 to 2000 with the intention of creating a story that was family orientated sellable to producers and having elements of a child s imagination.

The strange often beautiful beings in the animated feature toys in the attic exist in a faraway land located somewhere between czech surrealism and pixar communitarianism.