Jan Švankmajer Movies

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...

Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.

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".

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

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

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...

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much...

A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

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...

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

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

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...