Ivo Špalj Movies

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players...

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town...

A cartoon in the form of a comic describes the process of development of human thought.

A short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film.

"The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mockumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. The...

This combined film (black and white drawings of human hands and objects) is a parable on power and the motives affecting modern society.

The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island....

In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She...

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...

While the humans are away, the shoes in a cobbler's workshop engage in a number of activities, including flirting, kidnapping and a gunfight.

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.