Don Quixote
"Don Kihot" is a satirical, Klee-esque meditation about Don Quijote in the contemporary militaristic and regimentistic world.
See moreSchool of the Postmodern
Postmodernism also has to be seen as a system, one that is acknowledged, one with which one can create houses, locomotives, films, everything...
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In The Dam, although it is an experimental film, Kristl eschews the necessary earnestness in addressing his subject. The manufactured...
See moreAll the Drawings of the Town
The boy and the girl are suddenly separated from the picture book by a hand, which tears off a page from the book and makes a paper airplane in...
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Kristl plays a prisoner who can smile only when he sees The General.
See moreThe Film of the Authority
A group of men, women and Kristl with his camera debate how to resist authority in all its forms. All cinematic professionalism is avoided as...
See moreMadeleine, Madeleine
Confusion results when a young man walking through a park joins in a game of tennis.
See moreItalian Capriccio
"I shot this film, Italian Capriccio, as if it were my last. Now I see I had nothing to offer to anybody. No thought, no suggestion...
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Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.
See moreThe Letter
T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire...
See moreA Pad of 100 Leaves
A medium-length film by Vlado Kristl.
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Cartoon showing the "Utopes" - talented, unconventional, double-faced creatures. They are split by a uniformed man with a sabre - individually...
See moreWhen People Were Still Living for Personal Reasons
The friends of humanity: the painter, the musician, the poet and the prima ballerina - and all others are the enemies of humanity. -Vlado Kristl
See moreThe Pot
Allegory of a man who leads the people to destruction and then is reborn to recommence the cycle.
See moreConference of the Homeless
Delegations of the homeless from all over the world march in. This is a film in which there is nothing to see. - Vlado Kristl
See moreCar Race
Short film about car racing.
See moreShagreen Leather
Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous "Shagreen...
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Satirical cartoon featuring a jewel robbery.
See moreFilm or Power
Zagreb-born artist Vlado Kristl (1923-2004) was the most radical of the German auteur filmmakers. This is an anakofilm.
See morePoor People
Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and...
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