The collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer

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Title:

The collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer

Author:

Švankmajer, Jan, 1934-

Publication Information:

Brooklyn, N.Y. : KimStim, [2011]

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (132 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

KimStim collection

KimStim collection.

Summary:

"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. This is a collection of short works"--Container.

General Note:

Collective title from container.

Vol. 1 includes short films from 1965-1980, vol. 2 includes short films from 1982-1992; most made for divisions of Krátký Film Praha.

Special feature: BBC documentary, "Animator of Prague."

Language:

Czech

Contents:

disc 1. Fall of the House of Usher -- A Game with Stones -- Punch and Judy/Ravkvickarna -- The flat -- Picnic with Weissmann -- A quiet week in the house ; disc 2. Dimensions of dialogue -- Down to the celler -- The Pendulum, the pit and the hope -- Meat love -- Flora -- The death of Stalinism in Bohemia -- Food.

Personal Subject:

Švankmajer, Jan, 1934-

Švankmajer, Jan, 1934- (OCoLC)fst00350748

Subject Term:

Surrealism in motion pictures.

Surrealism in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01139549

Genre:

Animated films -- Czechoslovakia.

Foreign films.

Motion pictures -- Czechoslovakia.

Czech language films.

German language films.