Jan Švankmajer

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: ...

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 ...

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what ...

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a piece of ...

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

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

A very free adaptation of Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”, Goethe’s “Faust” and various other treatments of the ...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist ...

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

The last moments of a creature made of fruits and vegetables.

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much ...

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes ...

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 little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Animated short film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” and Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s ...

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

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are ...