#bubenik

The Drummer for the Red Cross / Bubeník Cerveného kríza [Juraj Jakubisko, 1977, 13m]

Slovak filmmaker Juraj Jakubisko was a relative latecomer to the Czechoslovak new wave, graduating from FAMU in Prague in 1965 and joining the likes of Milos Forman, Jaromil Jires, and Vera Chytilova. Nevertheless, he swiftly found a style combining Slovak folk art, new wave sensibilities, and avant-garde experimentation and managed to complete three and half feature films before Soviet tank treads rolled over the Prague Spring and he was banned from feature-filmmaking until the end of the 70s (presumably for the striking subversiveness of films like The Deserters and the Nomads and Birds, Orphans, Fools). The period did not entirely go to waste however, as he resumed filming shorts and television programs in 1976, and was able to make this, perhaps his most strikingly vivid film, for the International Red Cross in 1977.

This is the precursor to a planned much longer Jakubisko piece for Sunken Cinematheque that I will probably keep working on for months with little sign of progress.

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Bonus! Estonian 70s children's cartoon about an anthopomorphic egg voiced by real babies which is either too psychedelic for actual children or too psychedelic for any but actual babies. Delightfully weird sound design too.