- Jiří Barta
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name = Jiří Barta
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birth_date = November 26, 1948
birth_place =Prague ,Czechoslovakia
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occupation =Film director ,screenwriter
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footnotes =Jiří Barta is a Czech
stop-motion animation director. His films, many of which used the medium of wood for animation, garnered critical acclaim and won many awards, but after the fall of the communist government inCzechoslovakia he was unable to release anything for about 15 years (a situation similar to that faced by Russian animatorYuriy Norshteyn ). Throughout the 1990s he tried to find funding for a feature film called "The Golem", but ultimately only managed to complete a short pilot in 1996 (which can be viewed online). In 2006 he released his first computer-animated short film, and as of 2007 he's working on a new puppet-animated feature film which will be geared more towards a children's audience.Filmography
Feature Films
*"Na půdě aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny? " ("In the Attic or Who Has a Birthday Today?", 2009) [http://www.bioillusion.com/en/newprojects/in-the-attic/about-film.aspx] [http://www.cfn.cz/detail_film.php?37207]
*"The Golem" (put on hold)
*"Krysař " ("The Pied Piper of Hamelin", 1985)Short Films
*The Magic House (2006) [http://www.czechanimation.cz/default.aspx?Template=%5CTemplates%5CArticle&ArticleID=201]
*Club of the Abandoned (1989)
*The Last Theft (1987)
*Ballad of the Green Wood (1983)
*The Lost World of Mittens (1982)
*Disc Jockey (1981)External links
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* [http://www.kinoeye.org/03/09/ballard09.php Interview with Barta concerning "The Golem"]
* [http://www.kinoeye.org/02/01/kosulicova01_no2.php Overview of "The Pied Piper of Hameln"]
* [http://www.darkstrider.net/gallery2a.html Collection of clips from his films] (also the "trailer" for "The Golem")
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