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 supplies comes to life, led by a pair of anthropomorphic wool figures who court, cavort, and battle monsters across a tabletop.
TWO BALLS OF WOOL • DVĚ KLUBÍČKA
Directed by Hermína Týrlová
Written by Hermína Týrlová and Milan Šimek
Cinematography by Antonín Horák
Music by František Belfín
In Czech with English subtitles
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