The Czech government refused to distribute Jiří Trnka’ s short film “The Hand” (1965). Why do you think the film was seen as subversive by the communist government at the time?
I think the Czech government didn’t like The Hand because it was basically calling them out. The big hand in the film forces the artist to make things he doesn’t want to, which feels like a metaphor for how the government tried to control artists and what they could create. It was a quiet way of pushing back against censorship, so the government probably saw it as a threat and didn’t want people to see it.
