Summary: | Since his first film in 1964, Jan Svankmajer (LIittle Otik, Lunacz) has made some of the most memorable and unique movies ever made. Animator, poet, sculptor, designer and self-proclaimed "militant Surrealist," his films present 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. The Last Trick, 1964, 11 min Don Juan, 1970, 31 min The Garden, 1968, 19 min Historia Naturae, 1967, 9 min Johann Sebastian Bach, 1965, 9:30 min The Ossuary, 1970, 10 min Castle of Otranto, 1973-79, 17 min Darkness / Light / Darkness, 1989, 8 min Manly Games, 1988, 12 min
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