| Descript. |
2 videodiscs : sound colour and black and white ; 4 3/4 inches + 1 insert (4 pages) |
| Series |
KimStim collection
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| Notes |
Vol. 1 includes short films from 1965-1980; vol. 2 includes short films from 1982-1992. |
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Special features: Selected artwork; essay "Filmmaker as Alchemist"; Trailer for "Little Otik"; poems "Economical suicide" and "In the cellar"; BBC documentary "Animator of Prague"; Biographical sketch; Filmography; Title index. |
| Contents |
Vol. 1: The fall of the House of Usher (1980, 15 min.) -- A game with stones (1965, 9 min.) -- Et cetera (1966, 7 min.) -- Punch and Judy (1966, 10 min.) -- The flat (1968, 13 min.) -- Picnic with Weissmann (1969, 13 min.) -- A quiet week in the house (1969, 19 min.) ; vol. 2: Dimensions of dialogue (1982, 12 min.) -- Down to the cellar (1983, 15 min.) -- The pendulum, the pit and hope (1983, 16 min.) -- Meat love (1988, 1 min.) -- Flora (1989, 20 sec.) -- The death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990, 15 min.) -- Food (1992, 17 min.). |
| 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. |
| Audience |
Classification: Not rated. |
| Sys Details |
DVD ; Dolby digital, mono. |
| Language |
Czech and English with English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Svankmajer, Jan, 1934-
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Surrealism in motion pictures.
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Short films.
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Animated films.
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Feature films.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures, Czech.
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| Genre |
Feature films. |
| Other Author |
Svankmajer, Jan, 1934-
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KimStim, Inc.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
698452220253 |
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KS2025 |
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