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Svankmajer - Vol 1 Sleeve

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These two volumes of shorts present the essential Svankmajer. He has one of the most creative visual imaginations at work in cinema today and these shorts are witty, macabre, violent and always perverse in their bizarre transformations of objects and beings. Features Dimensions of Dialogue, The Flat, The Last Trick, Down to the Cellar and Virile Games.

 

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Director Jan Svankmajer
Genre Animation

 

Country Czech Republic Language CZECH   Year 1964-88

 

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Certificate PG   Length 70 mins   Label CON-V
Cat No CR057   Format VHS   Colour
Region2    

 

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Article - "Some Notes on Jan Švankmajer" by Graeme Hobbs
Friday 24th August 2007

By the time you get to the very end of the very last film on the BFI’s Jan Švankmajer collection, Food, it’s hard not to raise a wry smile when the credits state ‘made with the support of the Czech Ministry of Culture’.
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