Film 35mm > DVD / 30’
Music by Arthur Honegger.
Distribution RE:VOIR, Paris.

Based on woodcuts by Frans Masereel, The Idea is Bartosch’s only surviving film. "The Idea was animated on sheets of glass with washtinted blacks and with soap. Some 100-watt light bulbs obliquely lighted Bartosch’s work-bench from below, and the light became irridescent in the soap, giving some marvellous effects. (…) Bartosch showed that animation could be POETIC… It was Bartosch who first dared to give animation the dimensions of a great art, trusting it to voice his pain, to lay bare his heart, to tell of his hope for a better future – which he never saw.’’ Alexandre Alexeïeff et Claire Parker"

Born in 1893 in Polaun in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic).
Died in 1968 in Paris.