Jan Švankmajer Movies

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".

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

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...

Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

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...

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...

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

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

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.

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

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

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

An in depth look at both of the Švankmajers as they work on the full length film "Little Otik".

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...

A television adaptation of the memories of one of the first important Czech actors, Jindřich Mošna, about his difficult theatrical...

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

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...

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

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...