Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films

Czech Republic 1964-1992, 313 minutes
Dir. Jan Svankmajer
Genres: Cult, Horror / Fantasy, Animation

Topics: Stop-motion, Shorts, Mind-bender.

Aroview: A superb, forty-year anthology of the terrifying, eccentric short films of Jan Svankmajer, the influential and cutting edge Czech stop-motion animator.

Disc 1: Early Shorts
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 Weissmann (1968)
A Quiet Week in the House (1969)
Don Juan (1969)
The Ossuary (1970)
Jabberwocky (1971)
Leonardo's Diary (1972)

Disc 2: Late Shorts
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)
Food (1992)

Disc Three: Extras (149 minutes)
Johanes Doktor Faust (1958)
Nick Carter in Prague (1977, Excerpts)
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
Les Chimneres des Svankmajer (2001)
Czech TV interview (2001)
Lunacy trailer (2005)