Jan Švankmajer Movies

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".

Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she...

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...

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

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...

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players...

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

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

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

A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond...

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr. Vozáb has set to...

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...

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

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

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

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...