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Profile of Bretislav Pojar
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7th October 1923 |
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Susice, Czechoslovakia |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Břetislav Pojar (born October 7, 1923) is a puppeteer, animator and director of short films.
Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on "The Story of the Bass Cello" (1949) based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiřà Trnka. Pojar served as a puppeteer under his mentor Trnka.
Pojar compiled an extensive body of work as a director and animator in Czechoslovakia, where he made films in both puppet animation to the more common stop motion animation.
In the mid-1960s, Pojar emigrated to Canada, where he began a long collaboration with the Canadian National Film Board. His Canadian work is perhaps his best known, as he won the prize for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 for Balablok and the 1979 Jury Prize at Cannes for Best Short Film, Bum.
Pojar also won Canadian Film of the Year and Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival for 1969's To See Or Not To See, and the Otto Dibelius Film Award for New Media at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival for "E" — a commentary on perception, medicine, sanity, and the abuses of power.
Pojar's work is characterized by strong social commentrary, such as in Balablok, where armies of small circle- and square-shaped beings war with each other until they are all wounded into indistinguishable triangle shapes. Often, Pojar's shorts contain little or no spoken dialogue.
External link
- Bretislav Pojar on the IMDb
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