The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer is a 1984 British surreal short stop-motion film by the Quay Brothers, an homage to the influential short film maker Jan Švankmajer.[1]
Summary
editIt is structured as a series of little lessons on perception [2] at Prague[3] in a form of a puppet simulacrum of Svankmajer, whose head is an opened book, to a doll whose head the masters empties of dross and refills with a similar open book.[4]
Availability
editAvailable as part of the Phantom Museums DVD collection of Quay Brothers shorts.[5]
References
edit- ^ Brooke, Michael. "Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, The (1984)". Screenonline. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ Amazon.com
- ^ MUBI
- ^ Zeitgeist Films
- ^ Kino Lorber International
External links
edit- The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer at IMDb
- The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer on YouTube
- The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer at AllMovie
- Excerpt on Vimeo