Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films

Collection of short films from Czech Surrealist film-maker and animator Jan Svankmajer who uses a range of techniques in his work, combining live action, puppet theatre, stop-motion and drawn animation, claymation, cut-outs, re-edited archive footage and montage.

Spanning multiple decades, this collection includes: 'The Last Trick' (1964), 'J.S.

Bach: Fantasy in G Minor' (1965), 'A Game With Stones' (1965), 'Punch and Judy' (1966), 'Et Cetera' (1966), 'Historia Naturae, Suita' (1967), 'The Garden' (1968), 'The Flat' (1968), 'Picnic With Weismann' (1968), 'A Quiet Week in the House' (1969), 'Don Juan' (1969), 'The Ossuary' (1970), 'Jabberwocky' (1971), 'Leonardo's Diary' (1972), 'The Castle of Otranto' (1979), 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1980), 'Dimensions of Dialogue' (1982), 'Down to the Cellar' (1983), 'The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope' (1983), 'Virile Games' (1988), 'Another Kind of Love' (1988), 'Meat Love' (1988), 'Darkness - Light - Darkness' (1989), 'Flora' (1989), 'The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia' (1990) and 'Food' (1992).