THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set wildly entertaining: unearthly and operatic

wildly entertaining:  unearthly and operatic and totally addictive

“The magic of time weaves together apparently unrelated events

alternately reinforcing and frustrating each other – all fueled by a tragedy so ferocious that it’s literally burned a hole through the fabric of reality

New visual essay narrated by Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company

THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set wildly entertaining: unearthly and operaticTHE PIED PIPER (KRYSA), 1986, Czechoslovakia, 53 min. Director Ji Bartas stop motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half Jan van Eyck. The money obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their