Jan Švankmajer Movies

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...

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...

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

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

A man is trapped in a sinister flat where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

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

The last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables.

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players...

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

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.

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...

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...

In this early stop-motion film by Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer, a device consisting of a clock, a pendulum, a faucet and a bucket enacts a series...

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...

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...

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...