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Picnic con Weissmann
Jan Švankmajer · 1968
Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.
La caída de la casa Usher
Jan Švankmajer · 1982
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 mysterious family curse. The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasía en sol menor
Jan Švankmajer · 1965
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 images of doors and wire-meshed windows.
Flora
Jan Švankmajer · 1989
We see the last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables.
Oscuridad / Luz / Oscuridad
Jan Švankmajer · 1989
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
El jardín
Jan Švankmajer · 1968
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 that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.
Dimensiones del diálogo
Jan Švankmajer · 1983
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication occuring on all levels of human society.
El apartamento
Jan Švankmajer · 1968
A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
El muelle
Chris Marker · 1962
A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.
The Perfect Human
Jørgen Leth · 1968
An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.
Meshes of the afternoon
Maya Deren · 1943
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
