What if We Run Out of Stones?
At first glance, what could be more inanimate – and therefore uncinematic – than the mineral kingdom? Nora Štrbová challenges this idea and turns it on its head by making stones a highly kinetic subject. In this humorous 35mm essay, stones are finally given a voice as they observe us, judge us and, above all… put up with us.
- Czech Republic
- 2025, 6 min
- Director: Nora Štrbová
- Director of photography: Ludvík Otevřel
- Editor: Alan Sýs
- Screenplay: Nora Štrbová
- Music: Matěj Lindner
- Sound: Matěj Lindner
- Cast: Zdeněk Okleštěk, Sára Černochová, Vojtěch Zelenka, Františka Malasková
- Art Director: Františka Malasková
- Producer: Tomáš Šimon, Hana Šormová
- Production: FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts
Nora Štrbová
Nora Štrbová (1994) is an artist and filmmaker born in Bratislava. She studied animation at FAMU, where she is currently studying documentary film directing. Her short film S P A C E S (2020) was screened at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Visions du Réel, and IDFA, and was nominated for the Czech Film Critics Award. Her music video Tíseň premiered in Annecy. She has shown other films at Jihlava as well, including Let’s All Come Back to Earth (2020), That One Time Shaman Sasha Decided to Eradicate the Demon from Putin (2020), and Currents (2021).