Unsurpassed in his tactile, uncanny approach to experimental animation, surrealist Czech master Jan Svankmajer's films have inspired a generation of directors, including Tim Burton and The Brothers ...

Jan Svankmajer, 67, is a Czech filmmaker, animator and mixed media artist who made his first animated film back in 1964. Employing such devices as stop-action, claymation, puppetry and pixillation — ...

Welcome to the uniquely surreal world of Czech animation genius Jan Svankmajer. Unsettling, often grotesque, always imaginative and vivid, his stop-motion studies are built out of a distinctive blend ...

The wondrous, sometimes bizarre work of the celebrated Czech animator and surrealist Jan Svankmajer has inspired admirers far and wide for two generations, from Terry Gilliam to the Brothers Quay. A ...

An old friend from my Disney days just told me about her latest project: crowdfunding Jan Svankmajer’s final film, Insects. She asked, Could I help? There have always been other worlds of animation ...

If you make the world's coolest, creepiest animation and no one in Hollywood sees it, does it still make a sound? In the case of Jan Svankmajer, the answer is yes. Svankmajer has spent much of the ...

For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time.

With the boldly bizarre, darkly funny but poignant “Little Otik” prodigious Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer once again creates his unique blend of live-action and animation, this time to spin a ...