The third film in the "mediated reminder" connection (now it's a connection, like the French Connection) is "The Seventh Continent" by Dusan Vukotic. It's a 1966 Yugoslav-Czechoslovakian feature film in which a group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents. (IMDB)
This is a film with a strong message of internationalism and solidarity, not in its dialogues but in its perfect imagery in Eastmancolor, which makes it a great cinematic piece. But, there is a problem with this film. It is nowhere to be found! If Graf Oderland can't find it somewhere in NYC, I'm sentenced to living in a memory of a great movie that I saw only once in a cinema as a kid, without seeing it again. This may lead me into making all sorts of constructions and fantasies in my quest for the holy mediated reminder, and I may miss the point!
Besides making this feature presentation, Vukotic was the most significant representative of Zagreb School of Animated Film. He won many prizes, including an Oscar for best animated short in 1961 for Surogat ("Ersatz"), being the first foreigner to do so. Another of his films, Igra ("The Game"), was nominated for an Academy Award in 1964. (Wikipedia)
At least "The Surogat" and "Cow on the Moon" can be seen online:
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