Directing
Pavel Koutský
Born 1957-12-06 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Pavel Koutský was born on December 6, 1957 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is a director and writer, known for Média (2000), Kavárna (1998) and Portrét (1990). After grammar school, Pavel Koutský studied at the Academy of Applied Arts and Design in Prague where he specialized in film and television graphics. Pavel graduated in 1983 by a cartoon called Visit Prague. Since then he has focused on animated film, namely cartoons. He is the author of many films, TV blackouts, themes and commercial spots. Koutský has participated in a number of combined audio-visual projects. He likes to combine cartoon animation with real object animation. Pavel is the lecturer of animation at FAMU, Film Academy in Prague, since 1993. His most famous films include Curriculum Vitae, awarded the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 1987, or Media, awarded the Silver Bear and FIPRESCI Prize at the Annecy festival in 1999. He has been also awarded the Czech Lion for the best Art of Paleček story in Fimfárum 2. Recently he completed his first feature-length film The Hussites. Pavel is currently working on several projects, including feature-length documentary with animations The Terezin Gravediggers.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
8.0The composer's work, in black and white, disturbed by an elephant... and the melody, creating colours and unusual, fanciful shapes. In 1984, Pavel Koutsky worked on this film called Laterna musica inspired by Houslovy koncert (Paganini concert).
Musical Lantern
1984
6.1An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
Animated Self-Portraits
1989
6.1An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
Animated Self-Portraits
1989
5.0What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan Hus didn't even get warm in Constance, let alone burn up? What if Jan Zizka had more than one healthy eye? This animated comedy from director Pavel Koutský playfully breaks the myths about the Hussite era as the pedestal of history is occupied not by preachers and military leaders but by two unbelievable scatterbrains, who become the heroes of their time against their will.
The Hussites
2013
An early short film by the Czech animator Pavel Koutsky.
Visit Prague
1983
6.5An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.
Curriculum vitae
1987
This combined film (black and white drawings of human hands and objects) is a parable on power and the motives affecting modern society.
Média
2000
A man watches a cartoon of a cat and mouse, and cheers as the mouse scores a victory over the cat.
Ať žije myš
1998
A man watches a cartoon of a cat and mouse, and cheers as the mouse scores a victory over the cat.
Ať žije myš
1998
10.0Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.
Portrait
1989
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Pygmalion
2002
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Pygmalion
2002
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Kavárna
1998
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Kavárna
1998
A cartoon in the form of a comic describes the process of development of human thought.
From step to progress
1987
A cartoon in the form of a comic describes the process of development of human thought.
From step to progress
1987
Cupid fires an arrow at a woman only to find that's she's cold as ice. He tries everything he can to woo her, but when he eventually realises it's a lost cause he reaches into his head for a cassette recorder. He rewinds to the moment just before he shot his arrow at her and then...
Love at First Sight
1987
Cupid fires an arrow at a woman only to find that's she's cold as ice. He tries everything he can to woo her, but when he eventually realises it's a lost cause he reaches into his head for a cassette recorder. He rewinds to the moment just before he shot his arrow at her and then...
Love at First Sight
1987
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Čtyři lásky
2003
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Čtyři lásky
2003
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Čtyři lásky
2003
An allegory on people being manipulated without knowing about it. An animated figure is manipulated by the animator that cannot be seen in a film screened in normal speed. however, when we slow it down we notice that even the animator is manipulated by another, unknown animator. The puppet revolts against animation. But what shall do the animator?
Out of Sight
1987
Appeal against consumerism. Three 1 minute shorts.
Conversations
1992
Appeal against consumerism. Three 1 minute shorts.
Conversations
1992