Zaniklý svet rukavic AKA The Vanished World of Gloves (1982)


director: Jiří Barta
release-year: 1982
genres: animation, stopmotion, comedy
countries: Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
languages: Silent

A little testament to the history of cinema, played out via stop-motion animated gloves.

gloves, not hands.

It kicks off with some Buster Keaton-esque silent film comedy chase scenes.

or, you know, whoever

It's slicin' up eyeballs, I want you to know.

got me a movie, I want you to know

There's a hedonistic bacchanalia dedicated to Federico Fellini.

gloves are actually quite expensive

There's some nazi/fascist propaganda.

these Czechs seem to have something against fascism…

There's some Godzilla.

who is not a glove

And there's a very Close Encounter.

of the Glove Kind