Digital-era geeks, eight and over, stand to be amazed by this ingeniously hand-crafted, fully realised, secret world of toys. “Diabolically inventive… four parts Toy Story and one part David Lynch.” — NY Children’s Film Festival
A diabolically inventive tale, four parts Toy Story and one part David Lynch.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2010
In the Attic: Who Has a Birthday Today? 2009
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Jaded digital-era geeks, eight and over, stand to be amazed by this ingeniously hand-crafted, fully realised, secret world of toys. This lo-fi stop-motion extravaganza is the first feature in 20 years by the Czech legend Jirí Barta and he hasn't lost his surrealist's affinity for the non-sequiturs of childish yarn-spinning. We hope your neighbours won't mind if you help younger companions with the subtitles. - BG
"Even though they have been discarded by humanity, life is pleasant for an enclave of old toys. Every day Buttercup, a girly girl's doll, bakes a cake for a teddy bear, a marionette knight, and a silly-putty man, who roll a special birthday die for the daily honors. Yet, danger lurks in the far reaches of the attic. Head, a surviving piece of communist statuary, covets Buttercup and enlists his insect minions (nature's collectivists) and the house cat (who is just plain evil) to kidnap her." - Joe Bendel, Epoch Times