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Movie poster: Disc Jockey (1980)
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Disc Jockey

1980 · 10 min Animation
5.7 / 10 · TMDB

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title Diskjockey
Year 1980
Country Czechoslovakia
Genre Animation
Director Jiří Barta
Runtime 10 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.7/10 (17 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The film constructs a hypnotic meditation on routine, relying on recurring visual motifs and mechanistic animation. It explores how external rhythms govern biological ones, turning a day into a set of cyclical operations.

What lingers after viewing is a trance-like state where the line between the work of a DJ, the work of a machine, and human life dissolves. The mundane is revealed as a profound, endless loop. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jiří Barta

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Late at night, in darkness, allowing the rhythm and images to take over.

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