Available from 26 March – 23 April
As part of his Klassiki Picks season, Peter Strickland presents three shorts from “the mother of Czech animation,” Hermína Týrlová.

The exquisite, hand-crafted world of Hermína Týrlová (1900-1993) remains ripe for rediscovery. A pioneer of children’s film, Týrlová’s anthropomorphic imagination invests everyday objects with consciousness and motion. The three films presented here all demonstrate Týrlová’s deep interest in and mastery of the world of textiles and fabrics, the “odds and ends” of the domestic world that she brought to vivid life: from the mischief of The Knot in the Handkerchief (1958) to the fantasy romance of Two Balls of Wool (1962) and the surreal panoramas of The Blue Apron (1965).