Hermína Týrlová: three animations
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).
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Two Balls of Wool
Directed by Hermína Týrlová • 1962 • Czechoslovakia
The first of Hermína Týrlová’s “wool pictures”, in which she experimented with the creative potential of humble yarn, this stop motion short captures the director’s reimagination of the domestic as a world of imagination. A box of knitting supp...
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The Knot in the Handkerchief
Directed by Hermína Týrlová • 1958 • Czechoslovakia
One of Hermína Týrlová’s most beloved shorts, this quietly innovative combination of stop motion and live action melds together the worlds of childhood play and fantasy. When a young boy forgets to mend a dripping tap, his handkerchief takes on...
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The Blue Apron
Directed by Hermína Týrlová • 1965 • Czechoslovakia
One of Hermína Týrlová’s most poetic stop motion animations, this short combines the everyday and the surreal to dizzying effect, as an apron on a clothes line takes to the skies with the help of a paper bird. As it flits through uncanny landsc...
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Peter Strickland introduces his Klassiki Picks
Klassiki Picks is our series of curated watchlists personally selected for our subscribers by celebrated filmmakers, writers, and actors. We’re delighted to welcome Peter Strickland to the hot seat for the latest edition. Peter is an acclaimed director whose work draws on his love of experimental...
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Notes on the animations of Hermína Týrlová
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