There Will Be Blood at FAMU

The Czech film school FAMU is mainly perceived as a breeding ground for social realism or psychological dramas. But deep in its catacombs dwell the blasphemous students of animation, who give life to their morbid fantasies, which contain hilariously fatal accidents, perversely decadent characters and gushes of blood. Our loose line-up of short films, titled There Will Be Blood at FAMU, features three macabre animated films from recent years and one archive piece which by now has become a cult of its own.

Bloody Fairy Tales

Once upon a time in a land of blood, guts and puke. This darkly humorous take on classic folk tales features sex with a pig, smooching of frogs and a painful descent of a fair princess from her towering prison.

Bloody Merry Christmas

After watching this impressive entry into the subgenre of Christmas horror movies, which includes films like Silent Night, Deadly Night, all you will ever want Santa to get you will be a chainsaw.

Happy End

This award-winning film, which has made it into the ten titles shortlist of the Oscar’s Best Short Film nominations, takes the viewer on a tour through a hyperbolic version of the typical Czech village – full of fat tractor drivers, fat huntsmen, hastily mended roads and bizarre coincidences.

Meat

If Jan Švankmajer or the brothers Quay would make a commercial for a butcher’s shop, it would possibly look a lot like this unsettling short film about the dark side of meat processing.