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 landscapes and confronts an otherworldly menace, Týrlová’s love of textiles and her stream of consciousness approach to narrative come to the fore.
THE BLUE APRON • MODRÁ ZÁSTĚRKA
Written and directed by Hermína Týrlová
Cinematography by Antonín Horák
Music by Zdeněk Liška
In Czech with English subtitles
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