Film Archive

Frames

Czech Films 2001 / Okénka / Czech Republic, USA 2000

Synopsis

Sitting in a cinema, a lone viewer eagerly awaits the main attraction, but finds himself surrounded by an audience seemingly hell bent on preventing him from enjoying the film. Frames shows us a voyeur’s passage from anger to illumination and the vast internal metropolis of one viewer’s mind.

About the film

11 min / Black & white, 35 mm

Director Josepf Cahill / Screenplay Josepf Cahill / Dir. of Photography Jakub Haloušek, Matěj Cibulka, Pavel Berkovič, Jan Růžička / Music Petr Ostrouchov / Editor Daniel Bird / Producer Josepf Cahill / Production Pregnant Pictures / Cast Jiří Lábus, Anna Geislerová, Corey Stoll, Pavel Nový, Pavel Liška, Tatiana Vilhelmová

About the director

Joseph Cahill (b. 1976, New York City) graduated from Alfred University (NY) in 1998. Upon graduation he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study under the Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Svankmajer. He worked for Svankmajer on his latest feature, Otesanek, for which Cahill made many various puppets and special props.