The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)

Original title

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

Directed by

Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

14 min

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short film pays tribute to Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer. It uses stop-motion animation to create a cabinet filled with strange and evocative objects.

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What happens

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer is a 1984 British surreal short stop-motion film by the Brothers Quay, an homage to the influential short film maker Jan Švankmajer. The film was released on 20 June 1984, in the United Kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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