East of the West - Out of Competition 2008 / Jsem větší a lepší / Czech Republic 2007
A stage director casts a robot in his play to replace an actor who is incapable of turning up to rehearsal on time. Martin Duda’s graduate film combines 3D animation with live actors and presents a forlornly comic vision of the future in which the artificial character proves more viable than humans themselves.
A theatre is staging a new play. The director decides to replace an actor who’s always late with a robot operated by remote control. The peeved actor angrily maintains that technology has triumphed over humanity. After the rehearsal the robot goes off into town. Pre-programmed to come out with stage dialogue, it provides pleasant company in one of the bars, where its human prefiguration also shows up and takes over the controls… Martin Duda’s graduate film combines 3D animation with live actors. The film’s vision of the future is both melancholic and comical, while the artificial creature proves more viable than its human colleagues…
17 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Martin Duda
/ Screenplay Martin Duda, Zuzana Maurery, Vojtěch Mašek, Džian Baban
/ Dir. of Photography Jaromír Pávíček
/ Music Tomáš Dvořák, Matouš Godík
/ Editor Miloš Krejcar
/ Producer Tomáš Rychecký
/ Production Anifilm
/ Cast Matěj Hádek, Ondřej Pavelka, Miroslav Krobot, Kamil Halbich, Miroslav Mejzlík, Vanda Hybnerová
/ Contact Anifilm
Martin Duda (b. 1981, Mikulov, Czech Republic) works with 3D animation and visual effects to combine the real world with animated sequences. After graduating from Brno’s School of Applied Arts (furniture and interior design, 1996–99), he studied animation at FAMU in the years 1999–2007. During this period he was already involved in DVD production and animated spots. His films (Contact, 2003, VR, 2004) were successful at domestic and foreign festivals.
Anifilm
Slezská 134, 130 00, Praha 3
Czech Republic
Phone: +420776288558
E-mail: [email protected]
Tomáš Rychecký
Festival Organizer, Producer
Martin Duda
Film Director, Film Director / Producer
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