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Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.
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01 July 1984
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers.
28 May 1982
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver.
25 September 2007
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.
02 October 1981
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.
02 July 1982
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth.
10 September 1994
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil.
28 May 2007
Featuring all 26 entries in the official filmography, this is the world's first complete DVD edition of the short films by the legendary Czech Surrealist filmmaker-animator Jan Švankmajer.
15 October 2020
Jan Svankmajer, at 85 years of age, is one of the most prominent artists of European cinema. His work has inspired and guided generations of directors, and represents a sharp and merciless exploration of human nature which is entirely unique.
20 April 2017
A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933).
01 March 1986
A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framework of their everyday work must face questions of life and death.
04 July 2023
A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father Ivo Špalj talk about his life, career, and working methods.
03 August 1988
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit.
01 January 1992
Švankmajer demonstrates the darkly humorous approach to life and politics which the Czech authorities at one time regarded as so subversive that they banned him from film-making for eight years.
05 June 2006
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.
10 June 2003
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.
02 June 1990
This half-hour BBC documentary offers a revealing look at Svankmajer at work on "Death of Stalinism in Bohemia," and uses excerpts from his earlier films to trace the development of his unique sensibility.
01 January 1989
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
28 July 1983
Animated short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".
04 August 1978
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant.
18 October 2017
One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the timelessness of his work is proven by the admiration of the world, including the generation who came to know his music only after his death.
28 February 2001
"Les Chimères des Švankmajer" takes an in depth look at both of the Švankmajers as they work on the full length film "Little Otik".
25 January 2009
Experimental documentary about Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide. Includes interviews with multiple musicians, artists, and writers as well as live footage.
01 January 1983
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
17 November 2005
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy.
17 October 1996
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed.
25 January 2001
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child.
13 April 1979
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness.
17 September 1967
An eight-part animated portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music. The various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda (bolero), Pisces (blues), Reptilia (tarantella), Aves (tango), Mammalia (minuet), Simiae (polka) and Homo (waltz).
01 June 1989
An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
20 June 1984
The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled as a separate short.
01 January 1971
In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes.
19 February 2018
The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions.
03 May 1965
A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.
01 January 1988
A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways.
16 September 2010
Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life - one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of his dreams.
08 June 1992
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
06 December 1968
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.
01 January 1968
A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
01 June 1982
In 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.
13 February 1991
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).
01 January 1977
An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr.
02 January 1968
Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.
15 June 1967
A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.
01 January 1988
Svankmajer's music video for Hugh Cornwell's "Another Kind of Love."
01 January 1970
A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).
31 October 1983
A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
01 January 1969
A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision.
01 January 1972
Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.
01 September 1966
Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
01 July 1965
A device consisting of a clock, a pendulum, a faucet and a bucket enacts a series of events whenever the clock chimes.
01 September 1964
Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
27 April 1967
In 1967, Jan Švankmajer participated in the Terre des Hommes competition of the Montreal International Film Festival by submitting "L'Homme et la technique".
