Jiří Barta
Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director. Many of his films use wood as a medium for animation. Among his notable films are the 1986 film The Pied Piper.
In 2007 he released his first computer animated short film called Domečku, vař produced in a studio called Alkay Animation. In 2009 he released a puppet-animated feature film, Toys in the Attic.
Biography
Jiří Barta was born in Prague. In 1969 he began studying film and TV graphics at the Academy of Arts, [Architecture and Design in Prague]. He made the first animated film in 1978 with Jiří Trnka's studio.At the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague he leads the Film and TV Graphics Studio. He was appointed as Associate Professor in 1993 and Professor in 2001. In addition to teaching, he collaborates with theater and film projects.
Filmography
Feature films- The Pied Piper
- Toys in the Attic
- The Golem
- Riddles for a Candy
- The Design
- Disc Jockey
- The Vanished World of Gloves
- A Ballad About Green Wood
- The Last Theft
- The Club of the Laid Off
- Golem
- Cook, Mug, Cook!
- ''Yuki Onna''