Riddles for a Candy (Hádanky za bonbón) (1978)

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"DIR: Jiri Barta SUMMARY: A strange creature shapes shifts as he pursues a small candy through a book of riddles. WHY IT'S HERE: The brilliant Czech animator Jiri Barta's debut stop-motion short 'Riddles for a Candy' is quite different from the darker works for which he would become known. Instead, Barta here offers a comic, brightly coloured pursuit of a candy through a book of riddles. The large, shape-shifting creature at the centre of the story is wonderfully animated as he attempts to so"