Jan Švankmajer Movies

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

Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life - one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of...

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

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

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

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framework of their everyday work must face questions of...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

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

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

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

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...