Programme

JS Bach Fantasia g-moll

Jan Svankmajer // Tschechische Republik // 1965 // 08:00 min

A man plays on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.

Byt

The Flat

Jan Svankmajer // Tschechische Republik // 1968 // 13:00 min

A reflection on an alienated life in which a thing absurdly refuses to accept what it is meant for and aggressively attacks the man's freedom until he does not declare and sign his own defeat. This horrifying warning is a combination of human and object animation.

Moznosti Dialogu

Jan Svankmajer // Tschechische Republik // 1982 // 12:00 min

The film is a dizzy, passionate kaleidoscope of things and bones of contentions that make any dialogue and understanding impossible. It is a warning against ambivalence towards seeming values and securities.

Tima – Svetlo – Tma

Darkness, Light, Darkness

Jan Svankmajer // Tschechische Republik // 1989 // 08:00 min

A man fills an empty room with his body, senses, his existence. But his existence is fragile and temporary and as he came at the darkness he leaves for the darkness. T

Death Of Stalinism in Bohemia

Jan Svankmajer // Tschechische Republik // 1990 // 14:00 min

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of the Czech Republic.

Food

Jan Svankmajer // Tschechische Republik // 1992 // 17:00 min

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, a kind of absurd survey of anti-manners and the dysfunctional social relationship with food and eating.