Jan Švankmajer Movies

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

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

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

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

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.

One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the...

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...

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

In 1967, Jan Švankmajer participated in the Terre des Hommes competition of the Montreal International Film Festival by submitting "L'Homme et...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

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

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 astonishing array of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, objects and materials fill room after room - but this is not a museum open to the...

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

Švankmajer demonstrates the darkly humorous approach to life and politics which the Czech authorities at one time regarded as so subversive...

Svankmajer's music video for Hugh Cornwell's "Another Kind of Love."