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“MY ANIMATED UNIVERSE”
(language: English, interpreter: Makiko Nagao)
SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Michaela Pavlatova is a film director from Czech Republic. Her short animation films (Words, words, words, Repete, Tram) have received numerous awards at international film festivals including an Oscar nomination, Annecy Cristal, Golden Bear in Berlinale, Grand Prix at the International Animation Festival Hiroshima. In 2021 she finished a feature animation film My Sunny Maad, which won awards in Annecy, Tokyo, Zagreb, Guadalajara, etc. and was nominated for Golden Globes 2021. Besides animation, Michaela also directed live action films Nevěrné hry / Faithless games (2004) and Děti noci /Night owls (2008) awarded in San Sebastian and Karlovy Vary.
She is a chair of an Animation Department at FAMU Prague.
FILMS BY MICHAELA PAVLÁTOVÁ:
ANIMATION:
Vana / Bath
animation loop, 2022
Kino - Bucharest
3:10, 2022
short joke reflecting Michaela’s own film My Sunny Maad
CAFÉ GODOT - DVA HRNCE / CAFÉ GODOT - TWO POTS
2022, 10:45 loop - video instalation.
With kind permission/courtesy of Negativ Productions, LaFabrika, Hynek Čermák and Zuzana Stivínová, Vojtěch and Tatiana Dyk.
Psychology drama, expectations and dissapointments, endless waiting - for what?
An endless Dada café of loneliness. Men and women, together and alone, in futile expectations of something. Men turn into women, women turn into men; repeating gestures, absurd fragments of sentences. Michaela Pavlátová’s pun originated in pure joy of unhinged creativity that followed the completion of her feature film My Sunny Maad.
SIXTIES / 60. LÉTA
2021, 4:30 min. - created together with Alexandra and Martin Májovi
Producer: © Petr Ostrouchov (Animal Music)
music video for Czech musician Vladimír Mišík
SELF PORTRAIT 2021 / AUTOPORTRÉT 2021
2021, 20 sec.
Part of collection of selfportraits of animation department FAMU
MY SUNNY MAAD / MOJE SLUNCE MAD /MA FAMILLE AFGHANE
2021, 80 min.
Producer: Negativ, Sacrebleu, B-films, Czech Television, Distribution:Totem FIlms
When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan men, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join.
Annecy 2021 - Jury Award
DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE / RUOZNE DRUHY LUDI
2015, 3:18, Producer: Dominika Fricova, Michaela Pavlatova,
Music video on the song of Dominika Fricova (inspired by my film Mario and the Magician)
Oficial competition: ANIMA - Córdoba International Animation Festival, FestAnča Žilina
MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN
2014, 5:00 min., Producer: Michaela Pavlatova
"To let them realize what is going on, the Magician had to come". Animation clip made as a part of the life theatre performance based on the novella by Thomas Mann, openly criticizing rice of fascism.
TRAMVAJ / TRAM
2012, 7:40min, Prod: Sacrebleu Productions, Negativ
It is nice to have a job you like. It is nice to drive a tram.
Participation:
La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs/ Directors’ Fortnight (Cannes) 2012
Awards:
2012 :
Annecy International Animated Film - Annecy Cristal, FIPRESCI Award
Int. Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker (Sofia, Bulgaria) - Best animated short film (1-10min).
Festival du Film Court en Plein Air de Grenoble (France) – Grand Prix
FEMINA - International Women Film Festival 2012 (Brazil) – Best International Female Participation Award
The Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal - Best Animation, RTP2 Onda Curta Award.
Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2012 (Japan) - Special International Jury Prize of HIROSHIMA 2012
ANIMANIMA 2012 Festival in Cacak, Serbia- Special Prize of the Jury for Best Sound
festival International Paris Courts Devant au Cinéma des Cinéastes, (France) - Prix "Musique au cinéma"
Festival TOFUZI 2012 , Tbilisi, Georgia - The Best Film for Adult
10th Int. Animation Festival “TINDIRINDIS”, Vilnjus, Lithuania - The Best Adult Film
Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival in Toronto - the best film - "The Golden Fez"
POSLOUCHÁŠ MĚ? / ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?
2011, 9 min.
producer: High Moral Quality Films
Loneliness, isolation, misunderstanding - and still hope to meet someone.
Originally created as an animation video-installation for 2 monitors.
CIRKUS KAKTUS / CIRCUS CACTUS
2010, 5 min, prod. High Moral Quality Films
At this episode, Alex and Ivan get into the world of high politics.
MILKOMOON
2009, 3:30 min.
producer: High Moral Quality Films
Minimalistic variation on music of Milko Lazar.
KARNEVAL ZVÍŘAT / CARNIVAL OF ANIMALS
2006, 11 min, prod. Negativ
Animated erotical fantasy on music of Camille Saint-Saens
Awards:
2007 Grand Prix Cinanima, International fest. of anim. films Espinho, Portugal
2006 Grand Prix Anifest, International fest. of anim. films Třeboň, Czech Republic
2006 Special jury mention, International fest. of anim. films, Canada
DOPISY Z ČESKA/ LETTERS FROM CZECHO
2005, 3 min, prod. Studio Zvon (whole film has about 12 min)
How Czech people spend their weekends
(One of four animation stories made for Czech exhibition at EXPO 2005 in Aichi, Japan)
LAILA
2006, 5 min, 2D computer animation, prod. High Moral Quality Films
Laila is a girl like me or you.
TAILY TALES
2002, 2:10 min, 2D computer animation, prod. High Moral Quality Films
What can happen to a tomcat having too much time.
GRAVEYARD
2001, 5 min, 2D computer animation, prod. WildBrain
Scary movie
AŽ NAVĚKY / FOREVER AND EVER
1998, 15 min., film combining animation with documentary film,
prod. Kratky Film Praha, Czech TV, co-director: Pavel Koutecky
Wedding – we expect that love will last forever but who knows?
Awards:
1999 TV Special Prize, International Festival of Animation, Ottawa, Canada
1998 First Prize for the Best Animation, Int. Fest. of Short Films, Tampere, Finland
Included in contests: Int. Festivals of Animation in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, etc.
THIS COULD BE ME
1995, 3 min., animation combined with a documentary film, prod. BBC Bristol
Self-portrait of an animator living in the mysterious city Prague; part of the BBC series introducing animators worldwide.
REPETE
1995, 9 min., pencil on paper, prod. Kratky Film Praha
Three couples are following the routines of everyday life but they long to break free from the pattern.
Awards:
2001 Special Prize, Tough Eye Animation Film Festival Turku, Finland
1996 Grand Prix, International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Japan
1996 First Prize, International Festival of Short Films Tampere, Finland
1995 Golden Bear, International Film Festival Berlin, Germany
1995 Special Prize of the Jury, International Animation Festival, Annecy, France
1995 Grand Prix, International Film Festival Montevideo, Uruguay
1995 Prize of the Jury, International Animation Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
UNCLES AND AUNTS II.
1992, 3:30 min., cel animation, prod. Nico Crama
Animated album of family photos. Part of Paul Driessen’s project.
ŘEČI, ŘEČI, ŘEČI, / WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
1991, 8 min., cel animation, prod. Kratky Film Praha
One café, many people, many talks, one couple, one life.
Awards (selection):
1999 Best Film, International Animation Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1999 Third Best Film, International Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro
1993 Oscar Nomination, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1993 Grand Prix, International Short Film Festival Ankara, Turkey
1992 Grand Prix and Prize of Audience, Int. Anim. Fest. Stuttgart, Germany
1992 Silver Dove, International Short Film Festival Leipzig, Germany
1992 First Prize, International Animation Festival Zagreb, Croatia
1992 Third Prize, International Film Festival Seattle, U.S.A.
1992 Grand Prix, International Festival of Short Films, Hamburg, Germany
1991 Grand Prix, International Film Festival Montreal, Canada
1991 Grand Prix, International Film Festival Valladolid, Spain
KŘÍŽOVKA / THE CROSSWORDS PUZZLE
1989, 5 min., Production: Kratky film Praha
Awards:
1990 First Prize, Animafilm, Espinho, Portugal
1989 Second Prize, National Animation Festival, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep.
ETUDA Z ALBA / AN ETUDE FROM AN ALBUM
1987, 4:30 min.
Production: Academy of Art, Architecture, and Design, Prague, Kratky film Praha
Awards:
1988 First Prize, National Animation Festival, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep.
LIVE ACTION FEATURE FILMS:
Director:
DĚTI NOCI
2008, 80 min., prod.: Negativ, Czech TV
A film about love, the tenderness of friendship, and hope.
Awards:
2008 – The Best Actress, The Best Actor, International film festival Karlovy Vary
2008 - Best film, Intl. film festival Neisse, Zwittau, Germany
NEVĚRNÉ HRY / FAITHLESS GAMES
2003, 90 min., prod.: Negativ, Czech TV
A young musician struggles with the discordance between her marriage and her life.
Awards:
2004 Grand Prix, Festival Finale Plzen, Czech Rep.
2003 Special Jury Mention, International Film Festival San Sebastian, Spain
2003 Don Quichote Prize of film critics, Intl. Film festival Cottbus, Germany
PRAHA OČIMA / PRAGUE STORIES
1999, Story Absolute Love - 20 min.
Prod.: Sirena Films
A film composed of four stories by four directors
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