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El realizador
Lubomír Beneš (
November 7,
1935 in
Prague –
September 12,
1995) was a
Czech animator,
director and author living in
Roztoky, near
Prague. Married, a son and a daughter.
Mat (left, in red) and
Pat (right, in yellow)
Of all his creations,
Pat & Mat – with first film
The Tinkers (Kuťáci), 1976 – has reached the highest international acclaim. The series comprises short episodes about two highly inventive, yet incredibly clumsy neighbors.
[edit] 1960–80s
About ten years later, in 1967, he realized his first film
Homo (Man) in
Jiří Trnka's Studio. Since this debut he directed over a hundred short films, mostly puppet animations – many of them for children.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Beneš worked also on numerous TV projects, for the state channel
ČST.
His films got quite a few prizes abroad and at home. Alone
The King and the Dwarf (Král a skřítek) 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 TV 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 (Nerovný souboj) the Main prize in
Vancouver. For
With a Smile (S úsměvem) the main prize Golden Dancer in
Huesca.
[edit] 1990s
Since 1990 he worked in his own
AIF Studio in Prague and Zurich, which he founded together with his son and other Czech and Slovak animation professionals. Next to commission work, they produced 14 latest
Pat & Mat episodes, some of them got a number of prizes and awards at international festivals.
The 38th episode
The Cyclists (Cyklisti), animated by
Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, participated at the "
Annecy '93" (
Annecy, France) animation festival competition, and has been invited to a number of other world festivals.
The Cyclists has also been included in the selection "The Best of Annecy '93" by
Cinémathèque Québécoise (
Montreal),
Museum of Fine Arts (
Boston),
Pacific Film Archive (
Berkeley),
Museum of Modern Art (
New York) and presented by these institutions in their autumn
'93 show.
The 44th episode
The Billiards (Kulečník), animated by
František Váša, has been selected for the "
Annecy '95" competition, and invited to almost all other world film festivals.
The Billiards has got two prizes at the
World Animation Celebration in
Agoura (
CA), March
'97: 1st prize, best animation for a daytime TV series and 2nd prize, best stop motion professional