Discoveries from Czech Republic World Cinema

A critical animated essay on the current global state of society. Among other things, it deals with neoliberalism and the need for endless growth.

On his perilous journey from Troy back to Ithaca, Odysseus faced many dangers. The monstrous Scylla and deep-dwelling Charybdis were among them. Or was there a different ending?

This long-term observational film compares the situation of prisoners sentenced for life with the situation of those who leave their prison cells after several years. What does a man who has been looking forward to the day he would leave the prison gate for such a long time do? How does he cope with the fact that everything is different from what he imagined? What choices will he make?

Who is the idiosyncratic journalist Jiří X. Doležal, about whom seven dissertations have been written? What role does the magazine he has been writing for for twenty-five years play in his life? And what role do women play in it? And banned substances? And prehistory? And loneliness? And death?

1993 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala