36th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
During the first 11 years of collaboration between the studio and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the designs were based on festival trailers made by different film directors. While one of the visuals of the 36th year was a black cat, which had also appeared back in 1997, her rendition could not be more different – instead of a retro shadow, this one was stuffed, mangy and pinned to communist-era chipboard by a merciless flash lightning. In the trailers by the director Ivan Zachariáš, stories of a helpless projectionist blended the satirical wit of Czech New Wave with extreme sense of styling, the purpose of which was perfectly served by the lively colours of the photographer Adam Holý and Najbrt’s ability to use a photograph as a sovereign graphic element – here in the form of nine objects-logos representing the principal props from the nine versions of the trailers. The director Zachariáš and later Martin Krejčí sought to put to use Czech national treasures – instead striving for class, the viewer was offered self-irony. Najbrt was more than ready to embrace this and the fact that the dominant feature of the festival on the Thermal Hotel that year was a gigantic canvas with a dead houseplant is considered to be one of the still unbelievable triumphs of own will in the studio.
2001 Aleš Najbrt
photo Adam Holý
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK