Hun Tun
A young woman measures her strength against the king of chaos himself. The more she wants to win, the less she succeeds. Through a mythological story, the filmmaker looks back at the moment she discovered that there are things in life she will never control.
- Czech Republic, France
- 2024, 15 min
- Director: Magdalena Hejzlarová
- Director of photography: Zdena Sýkorová
- Editor: Alexander Kashcheev
- Screenplay: Magdalena Hejzlarová
- Music: Gosheven
- Sound: Alexander Kashcheev
- Cast: Alica Minár
- Producer: Karolína Davidová, Romain Bent
- Production: 13ka, Solal Films
Magdalena Hejzlarová
Visual artist and stop-motion animation expert Magdalena Hejzlarová graduated from Prague’s Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design with her student project Hypnagogia (2017). The short film, which premiered at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, consists of animated accounts of people describing their experiences of falling asleep. Hejzlarová has worked at several art and animation studios in Prague and Rotterdam. She is a commissioned artist and animator and has collaborated on noteworthy films such as La traversée by Florence Miailhe (Honorable Mention at Annecy 2021) and Apart (2018) by Diana Cam Van Nguyen (finalist for the BAFTA Student Film Award). She also assists artists with disabilities in a Prague-based art studio. Along with Hun Tun, Hejzlarová created a radio documentary and a podcast series for Czech Radio on the topic of sleep and insomnia.