Vidiots is firing up the 16mm projectors for Sweet 16mm: Czech Please! an evening of rare stop-motion animation from the former Czechoslovakia. With puppet and object animation; from the adorable to the dark and thought-provoking, this evening will open your eyes to the brilliance, vision and creativity of some of the greatest Czech animators including Jan Švankmajer – one of the world’s most brilliant and creative visionaries, Jiri Trnka – the founding father of Kratky Film Praha and the “Walt Disney of the East”,  Hermína Týrlová – the mother of Czech animation and the first animator (ever) to use wire-framed puppets, as well as work from the magnificently imaginative Karel Zeman, something extra-adorable from Bretislav Pojar, and even more celluloid rarities.  It’s a show that’s millions of minute movements in the making! Everything screened on 16mm film.

With several prints on generous loan from Smokehouse Films.