This 1980 Czech animation is circles all the way down

This 1980 Czech animation is circles all the way down Popkin 10:01 am Tue Apr 28, 2026 Rawpixel.com/shutterstock.com Do you ever feel like you're spinning in circles trying to get ready in the morning? "Diskžokej" ("Disc Jockey"), directed by Jiří Barta, is a 1980 Czechoslovakian short that finds the circle in everything: plates, pancakes, cigarette butts, coffee cups, steering wheels, stairwells, records. The film never leaves the frame, and Barta films most of it directly from above. Posted by an.i.ma.tion on Instagram. As the music plays, the rhythm pulls in butchers, combine harvesters, and heavy machinery. Western brand logos flash through: Pepsi, Shell, American cars. This was made in communist Czechoslovakia in 1980. Barta, as an.i.ma.tion notes, "doesn't condemn any of it.

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