| Directer: | Jan Svankmajer |
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| Countries: | Czech Republic |
| Genre: | Animation |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Type: | Color |
| Language: | Czech With English Subtitles |
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Synopsis
For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation, and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty, and perversely visceral.
KimStim (and Kino) is proud to to offer this collection of remarkable short works from an artist that has mesmerized audiences the world over and has inspired filmmakers from the Brothers Quay to Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.
*Note: Contains material previously released by Image Entertainment.
Contents:
Disc 1
The Fall of the House of Usher
5 mins., 1980, B&W
A Game with Stones
9 mins., 1965, color
Et cetera
7 mins., 1966, color
Punch and Judy / Rakvickarna
10 mins., 1966, color
The Flat
13 mins., 1969, color
Picnic with Weissmann
13 mins., 1969, color
A Quiet Week in the House
19 mins., 1969, color
Disc 2
Dimensions of Dialogue
12 mins., 1982, color
Down to the Cellar
15 mins., 1983, color
The Pendulum, the Pit, and the Hope
16 mins., 1983, color
Meat Love
1 mins., 1988, color
Flora
20 secs., 1989, color
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia
15 mins., 1990, color
Food
17 mins., 1992, color
Critical Acclaim
"One of cinema's most visionary surrealists!" - The New York Times
DVD Extras
Essay - "Filmmaker as Alchemist"
BBC documentary - "Animator of Prague"
Selected Jan Svankmajer artwork
Bio and filmography
Poems
