Věra Chytilová x 4

Chytilová’s 1966 rowdy, subversive satire Daisies has, quite rightly, achieved unassailable cult status today, but it would be a grievous error to imagine that this punkette provocateur was a one hit wonder. We’ll be rolling out a selection of four of the moral farces that Chytilová produced upon emerging from a government-enforced seven-year ban from filmmaking, issued as response to her 1970 Fruits of Paradise, a program that includes a new restoration of 1979’s Panelstory, or How a Housing Development is Born; Calamity, a zesty raspberry blown at sclerotic bureaucracy; the Golden Bear-nominated, horror/sci-fi mashup Wolf’s Hole; and Tainted Horseplay, the final film of her “infantile libertine” trilogy. A chance to get better acquainted with “the most unruly and colourful representative” [Sight & Sound] of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

With the support of the Czech Center NY