Jan Švankmajer Movies

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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...

An aging professor at a Prague neurological clinic is forced to confront his personal values and the harsh boundaries of medical science. Already...

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".

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...

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...

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...

A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond...

Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

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...

A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.

An eight-part animated portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music. The various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda...

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.

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much...

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.