Jan Švankmajer Movies

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

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...

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".

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled...

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