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Diskzokej

Diskzokej

1980Short⏱️ 10m
AnimationShort
6.5
IMDB Rating
244 votes

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and...

Director
Jirí Barta
Writers
Boris Hybner, Jirí Barta
Stars
N/A
Country
Czechoslovakia
🏆 1
Wins
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 2
Reviews
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🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Production
Krátký Film Praha, Studio Jirího Trnky

🏷️ Keywords

record albumspinningbutcherpillcircle

🎯 Categories

AnimationShort

⭐ Featured Review

circular logic
by lee_eisenberg2011-09-27

"Jiří Barta's "Diskžokej" ("Disc Jockey" in English) shows a bunch of actions and processes represented by circles. There's also a bunch of labels that nowadays would look like product placement. The neat scene was when one of the records had an Apple logo (the Beatles' record company, not the then-incipient computer company). I assume that this was all meant to be a mild satire on consumerism, although it's hard to tell with the prominence of the logos. I liked "A Ballad about Green Wood", "The Club of the Laid Off" and "Projekt..."

📖 Synopsis

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and...