Blogs about: Jan Svankmajer

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Fresh Guacamole1 comment

steffiegraph wrote 19 hours ago: If you watched the Academy Awards this year, this video might look familiar: It was nominated for an … more →

Tags: Animation, academy awards, Fresh Guacamole, PES, stop-motion movie, Surrealism

Alice - Jan Svankmajer

Natalie Ferris wrote 2 days ago: ‘Alice’ is a stop motion fantasy film mixed with live action film by Jan Svankmajer, based on the or … more →

Tags: Photography, old, Art, vintage, alice, Alice in Wonderland, Stop-Motion, Animation

Jabberwocky - Stop Motion Animation

Celoproxy wrote 2 days ago: I’m scared. I’m inspired. … more →

Tags: Art, Inspiration, Animation, Dolls, Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll, Poem, Short Film, Stop-Motion

Abandon sanity all ye who enter here - Jan Svankmajer

Mike B wrote 1 week ago: Jan Švankmajer It always happens to me that I stumble upon the most influential pieces of art by cha … more →

Tags: great shorts, Short Film, Animation, Surrealism, dada, Stop-Motion

An Animated Nightmare

lauraisfrank wrote 1 week ago: A boy is invited to the wedding reception of a mouse wedding. Inspired by the Hans Christian Anderse … more →

Tags: film, Animation, University of Bristol, The Grotesque, The Sandman, Hans Christian Andersen, mice, DRAMA DEPARTMENT, Primus

Jan Švankmajer’s ‘Alice’

kirstyskears wrote 1 week ago: Notes from watching Jan Švankmajer’s ‘Alice’ ·         ‘Alice thought to herself, now you will see a … more →

Tags: Dolls Project, Artist References, Childhood, Surrealism, alice, Fantasy-land, sinister

Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013)2 comments

Stephen McClurg wrote 2 weeks ago: The earliest artist I remember thinking about as an artist was Jim Henson. It’s secretly thril … more →

Tags: Opinion, notes, Ray Harryhausen, Ray Bradbury, Jim Henson, brothers quay, Nostalgia, Sesame Street

Švankmajer, el surrealismo de las pesadillas.

linnemagazine wrote 1 month ago: Por: Sebastián Ojeda @svz_90 El cine es en verdad una maravilla, un arte que narra diversas historia … more →

Tags: Cine, LINNEMagazine, Linné, tim burton, Terry Gilliam, Žvahlav aneb Šatičky Slaměného Huberta, Zamilované maso

Alice: Jan Švankmajer’s Adventures in Wonderland

Thom Dicomidis wrote 1 month ago: Baroque dolls and stuffed animals, given stop-motion animus behind uncanny glass eyes, evoke the mor … more →

Tags: Essay-Type Stuff, Review stuff, Alice's adventures in wonderland, First Run Features, Kristyna Kohoutova, Lewis Carroll, Neco z Alenky, Svatopluk Malý, Terry Gilliam

Jan Švankmajer: Short Films (part 2)

Milica Chotra wrote 1 month ago: “To me, Surrealism is a certain rebellious stance on life and the world. Its contemporary stan … more →

Tags: Motion pictures, Film (2), Art, Short Film, List, Surrealism, Edgar Allan Poe

Jan Švankmajer: Short Films (part 1)2 comments

Milica Chotra wrote 1 month ago: “(I)t is dream and reality that together create a human life. This should apply all the more t … more →

Tags: Motion pictures, Film (2), Art, Short Film, List, Lewis Carroll, dream, johann sebastian bach

Curiouser and curiouser...

thevanguardistarchivist wrote 1 month ago: …how to fall down the rabbit hole without leaving your room. “In the beginning was bored … more →

Tags: Create, Curate, Inspiration, boredom, paradis, Alice in Wonderland

Alice

cinemaburn wrote 1 month ago: Lewis Carroll is very famous for one novel: Alice in Wonderland. This novel has been directly and in … more →

Tags: Review, Alice in Wonderland, Stop motion animation, Lewis Carroll

Influences on Dustless | 3 | Anime [1]

hyperdust wrote 1 month ago: The art of animation has been a significant influence on my work. I’m interested in different … more →

Tags: Dustless, Fiction, anime, Fantasy Fiction, writing, Philosophy, influences, Realism, brothers quay

Film: Alice

Anthony Hon wrote 1 month ago: Alice (Neco z Alenky) is a 1988 fantasy film, written and directed by Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer … more →

Tags: Film of the Week, Animation, film, Movie, Review, Film of the Week, alice, Alice in Wonderland

10 Creepy Pop Culture Bunnies

anastasiflavorpill wrote 1 month ago: Whether you’re celebrating Easter as a religious holiday or a Hallmark holiday — and an excuse … more →

Tags: pop, Animation, David Lynch, Easter, spring, who framed roger rabbit 2, White Rabbit

‘Švankmajer: The Last of the Great Surrealists’ in New Eastern Europe

literalab wrote 2 months ago: My article on the recent Švankmajer exhibition in Prague has just been published in New Eastern Euro … more →

Tags: Magazines, Surrealism, Feature, Zygmunt Bauman, joanna bator, Seven Terrors, Selvedin Avdić, New Eastern Europe

Down, down, down

Dver wrote 2 months ago: “Unless we again begin to tell fairy tales and ghost stories before going to sleep and recount … more →

Tags: Schauspiel, film, Alice in Wonderland, dark, Stop motion animation, Literature, girls underground

the mad march hare puppet

karlosventura wrote 2 months ago: the march hare theatre puppet post and puppet by karl ventura wimbledon college of art special effec … more →

Tags: technical arts and special effects, Jim Henson, theatre puppet, karl Ventura, Alice in Wonderland, march hare, rabbit, tim burton, Wimbledon College of Art


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