Jan Švankmajer Movies

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...

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

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.

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s...

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

Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

This half-hour BBC documentary offers a revealing look at Svankmajer at work on "Death of Stalinism in Bohemia," and uses excerpts from his earlier...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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