Something Different: The Films of Věra Chytilová
Something Different: The Films of Věra Chytilová
July 26–August 30, 2024
This is a series of films roiling with unruly energy and feminist fury from Věra Chytilová, “one of the Czech New Wave’s most rebellious, irreverent and boundary-breaking talents” (Sight & Sound).
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Daisies
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Something Different
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Fruit of Paradise
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Automat Svět
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Past Films
Daisies
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia, 1966Friday, July 26 7:00 PMView DetailsVěra Chytilová’s most acclaimed film, spawned by the Prague Spring, is a brilliantly colored surrealist comedy starring a couple of chicks in search of kicks.
Something Different
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia, 1963Friday, August 2 7:00 PMView DetailsVěra Chytilová’s debut feature intercuts the lives of its two female protagonists—a professional gymnast and a restless housewife—who never meet but share a similarly tracked existence. “An unsung landmark of feminist cinema” (BAMcinématek).
Fruit of Paradise
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia, 197035mm Archival Print
Saturday, August 10 7:00 PMView DetailsAdam and Eve are seduced by Satan in an Eastern European health spa in Věra Chytilová’s companion piece to Daisies, an inventive union of allegory, feminism, and the avant-garde, often compared to Federico Fellini’s Satyricon and the films of Sergei Parajanov.
The Short Films of Věra Chytilová
Wednesday, August 14 7:00 PMView DetailsA rare chance to see Věra Chytilová’s earliest shorts, which explore anarchy, individualism, and surrealist allegory. Titles include Ceiling, A Bagful of Fleas, and her contribution to the Czech New Wave omnibus Pearls of the Deep, Automat Svět.
Panelstory
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia, 197935mm Archival Print
Sunday, August 18 4:30 PMView DetailsA new suburban housing block in the midst of either construction or destruction provides the site of Věra Chytilová’s biting satire of official incompetence and corruption and of the resourcefulness and/or deceit of those left living in its cracks.
Daisies
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia, 1966Friday, August 30 5:00 PMView DetailsVěra Chytilová’s most acclaimed film, spawned by the Prague Spring, is a brilliantly colored surrealist comedy starring a couple of chicks in search of kicks.