Svankmajer’s music video for Hugh Cornwell’s “Another Kind of Love.”Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Hugh Cornwell: Another Kind of Love (1988)
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Jan Svankmajer – Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
1981-1990AnimationCzech RepublicJan SvankmajerShort FilmA three-part depiction of various forms of communication. ‘Factual Discussion’ depicts three heads (made up of fruit, kitchen utensils and writing implements respectively) endlessly devouring and regurgitating each other. ‘Passionate Discourse’ shows two clay figures romantically intertwined, and the problems with dealing with the end product of their passion, while ‘Exhaustive Discussion’ shows two animated heads playing a bizarre variant of the old scissors-paper-stone game.Read More »
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Alain Escalle – Le Conte Du Monde Flottant AKA The Tale of the Floating World (2001)
2001-2010Alain EscalleAnimationFranceShort FilmIMDB user Review:
Artifacts Don’t MoveThe idea of this, and the ideas of how we might watch it, are more engaging than the thing itself.
Japan is a collection of notions about what it was, perhaps more-so than any other culture with visibility. Both Japanese and the west look on that collection of cultural relics, sometimes to mine for expressive power.
(Arabia and Persia have a similar dynamic which differs in being based on knowledge rather than refinements in society. It also differs in that it destroyed what they had themselves — and deliberately, so only the anger at loss remains and none of the reference to introspection.)Read More »
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Various – Alternativni Filmovi u Beogradu [Experimental Shorts] (1950-1990)
Short FilmAnimationExperimentalVariousYugoslaviaThis is collection of 20 Serbian Experimental/Alternative short movies/animations.It’s released on DVD,but it’s hard to find .Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Zánik domu Usheru AKA Fall of the House of Usher (1982)
1981-1990AnimationCzech RepublicJan SvankmajerShort FilmIn this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother’s senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic. As the visitor’s stay at the mansion continues, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax, and he must choose between his concern for his hosts’ safety, and his own.Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Otrantský zámek AKA The Castle of Otranto (1977)
1971-1980AnimationCzech RepublicJan SvankmajerShort FilmA mockumentary-style adaptation of the gothic 1764 novel of the same name, which includes Terry Gilliam-like animations throughout.Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Leonarduv denik AKA Leonardo’s Diary (1972)
1971-1980AnimationCzech RepublicJan SvankmajerShort Film

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta AKA Jabberwocky (1971)
1971-1980AnimationCzech RepublicJan SvankmajerShort Film

Lewis Carroll’s poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Picknick mit Weismann aka Picnic With Weissmann (1968)
1961-1970AnimationCzech RepublicJan SvankmajerShort Film






