►

PAT & MAT SERIES

>  SITE MAP & NAVIGATION < enter  Pat & Mat Pat & Mat (home) / licences / shop - about - more about - episodes available - chain of title

format / length series, 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 minutes, total 49 episodes technology 3D, puppet animation, 35mm frame by frame, without dialogues carrier DigiBeta, Betacam SP (or other) PRODUCTION TEAM / CREDITS ► see 3/4 of the core team OF THE LATEST 14 EPISODES director  Lubomir Benes story, script  Lubomir Benes / Lubomir & Marek Benes characters, design Lubomir Benes, Vladimir Jiranek animators Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Frantisek Vasa editing Vera Benesova music Petr Skoumal sound Ivo Spalj sound effects Jitka Zvirocka & brunclici camera Ivan Vit collaborators Marek Benes, Jan Bouzek, Miroslav Kuchar, Jan Tippmann production management Michal Podhradsky production AIF Prague / Zurich (Lubomir Benes & team) all rights- © AIF / P&M Zurich / Prague PAT & MAT MOVIE A feature film project (inspired by Aardman claymation ones) is in development, by the leading: -  -  PAT & MAT / AIF STUDIO ZURICH PAT & MAT / LUBOMIR BENES HEIRS together with our partners: -  ( -  AIF ASIA AIF USA ) NEW PAT & MAT SERIES We are preparing a re-edition of the existing episodes, as well as further production in a new format: series, quarter-hours, total 52 episodes / 26 half-hours technology: 3D, puppet animation, 35mm frame by frame, with dialogues (as well as new music, opening and closing sequences) carrier: 16:9 PALplus, HDTV (and newer, as the technology develops) The pilot, 50th episode - Cards / Karty - has not been authorized for release (yet)

THE DIRECTOR Lubomir Benes began in the late fifties in the Bratri v triku /Brothers in the T(rick)-Shirt/ Studio, soon after in Studio Jiriho Trnky (formerly Loutkovy film), of Kratky film Prague, working in almost all professions of animation. About ten years later he realized his first film HOMO (MAN) /Homo/ there. Since this late sixties' debut he directed over a hundred short films, mostly puppet animations - many of them for children. His films got quite a few prizes abroad and at home. Alone THE KING AND THE DWARF /Kral a skritek/ got about ten of them - e.g. Silver Carnation in Sitges, Silver in Odessa, Silver Mikeldi in Bilbao. For the RECORD-PLAYER /Gramofon/ from the series PAT & MAT /…AND THAT'S IT! /Pat a Mat /…a je to!/ there was the Prize for the best film for children at the 6th festival in Espinho. For UNEVEN FIGHT /Nerovny souboj/ the Main prize in Vancouver. For WITH A SMILE /S usmevem/ the Main prize Golden Dancer in Huesca. Since 1990 he worked in his own studio in Prague, which he founded together with other Czech and Slovak animation professionals. The latest Pat & Mat films got a number of prizes and awards at international festivals, too. Lubomir Benes died in the end of 1995. His collaborators wish to continue their common work, the next episodes of Pat & Mat are in preparation. And perhaps Marek, Lubomir's son, may return to puppet animation, his very first steps (Key / Klic) followed by more collaboration with his father at AIF, and develop (all this) further. The very first film Pat & Mat (Tinkers) / Kutaci (Pat a Mat) THE ARTIST Vladimir Jiranek works as cartoonist for newspapers and magazines, and as illustrator of many books, of some he is the author. In the eraly seventies he began his work for animation in the Brothers in T(rick)-Shirt Studio of Kratky film (now Studio Jiriho Trnky). He is an artist, author, co-author, script writer, director and co-director of over thirty short films, many of them prize-winning. For his and Vaclav Bedrich's film AUTOMATIC /Automatic/ he got the first prize in Zagreb, Golden Peacock in New Delhi, for GOOD MORNING /Dobre jitro/, EXCURSION /Vylet/ and SHSHSH /Sss/ Golden Medal in Varna and Golden Bear in Berlin. For OLYMPIC FIRE /Olympijsky ohen/ the first prize in Rennes. Together with Lubomir Benes he created the two buddies Pat & Mat ...and Pat & Mat /...and that's it! series.

top

  ►