| Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer
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
- NTSC Region 1
- English Subtitles
- Essay - "Filmmaker as Alchemist
- BBC documentary - "Animator of Prague"
- Selected Jan Svankmajer artwork
- Bio and filmography
- Poems
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