Daria Kashcheeva Shorts Program
Director: Daria Kashcheeva
2019 / 65min / DCP
Daria Kashcheeva, whose short Daughter, a dialogue-free work tenderly exploring the strained relationship between a father and daughter, was nominated for a 2020 Academy Award, joins us at Metrograph to present that film and her lauded follow-up, Electra, alongside three of her carte-blanche picks.
“Julie Černá’s Stone of Destiny is a lyrically inventive animated musical that follows a singing anthropomorphized stone on a symbolic quest for freedom, meaning, and self-understanding. Its poetic blend of surreal encounters, emotional nuance, and imaginative visual metaphor creates a dreamlike atmosphere that deeply resonated with me and forms a sensitive, contemplative counterpoint within this programme.
“Inside by Viktorie Štěpánová is an intimate animated documentary about searching for a relationship with one’s own body. I am deeply moved by the sensitive connection between the chosen animation technique and the fragile, personal theme, which keeps the film both physical and vulnerable at the same time. It naturally belongs in this programme through its attention to corporeality and to the inner traces left in us by relationships and the surrounding reality.
“Nora Štrbová’s Spaces is a deeply personal animated documentary about memory—about how our identity begins to fragment when memories start to disappear. Drawing from the story of her brother, Štrbová uses fragmentary animation to evoke the inner world of someone whose memory can no longer hold reality together. Its fragile form and intimate narration transform a personal experience into a universal question: what of us remains when our memories begin to fade?” —Daria Kashcheeva
Daughter (Daria Kashcheeva , 2019, 15 mins)
Electra (Daria Kashcheeva , 2023, 26 mins)
Stone of Destiny (Julie Černá, 2025, 11 mins)
Inside (Viktorie Štěpánová, 2020, 5 mins)
Spaces (Nora Štrbová , 2020, 8 mins)
Q&A with filmmaker Daria Kascheeva on Saturday, April 18th
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