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Jan Švankmajer

Directing

  • Born
  • September 4, 1934
  • Place of birth
  • Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.

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Golden Sixties
2009
Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague
1990
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film poster
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
1984
Kunstkamera poster
Kunstkamera
2022
Engi – Sound Designer Ivo Špalj poster
Engi – Sound Designer Ivo Špalj
2023
Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory poster
Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory
2017
Kikoe poster
Kikoe
2009
Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting poster
Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting
2018
Les Chimères des Švankmajer poster
Les Chimères des Švankmajer
2001
Alchemical Furnace poster
Alchemical Furnace
2020
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
2017
The Magic Art of Jan Švankmajer
1992

On the crew 51

Dimensions of Dialogue poster
Dimensions of Dialogue
1983
The Visitors poster
The Visitors
1983
Alice poster
Alice
1988
Faust poster
Faust
1994
Little Otik poster
Little Otik
2001
Castle of Otranto poster
Castle of Otranto
1977
The Three Veterans poster
The Three Veterans
1984
Virile Games poster
Virile Games
1988
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) poster
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007
Visitors from the Galaxy poster
Visitors from the Galaxy
1981
Ferat Vampire poster
Ferat Vampire
1982
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet poster
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
1978
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians poster
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
1981
Conspirators of Pleasure poster
Conspirators of Pleasure
1996
Lunacy poster
Lunacy
2005
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) poster
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
2010
The Ninth Heart poster
The Ninth Heart
1979
The Flat poster
The Flat
1968
The Garden poster
The Garden
1968
Insect poster
Insect
2018
The Fall of the House of Usher poster
The Fall of the House of Usher
1982
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor poster
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor
1965
Animated Self-Portraits poster
Animated Self-Portraits
1989
A Game with Stones poster
A Game with Stones
1965
Flora poster
Flora
1989
A Quiet Week in the House poster
A Quiet Week in the House
1969
Food poster
Food
1996
Moje první benefice
1972
Man and Technology poster
Man and Technology
1967
Meat Love poster
Meat Love
1989
The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope poster
The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope
1983
Et cetera poster
Et cetera
1967
Darkness, Light, Darkness poster
Darkness, Light, Darkness
1990
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) poster
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
1985
Jabberwocky poster
Jabberwocky
1971
Natural History Suite poster
Natural History Suite
1967
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia poster
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia
1991
Down to the Cellar poster
Down to the Cellar
1983
Kunstkamera poster
Kunstkamera
2022
Leonardo's Diary poster
Leonardo's Diary
1972
Picnic with Weismann poster
Picnic with Weismann
1968
Scalpel, Please poster
Scalpel, Please
1986
Don Juan poster
Don Juan
1969
The Ossuary poster
The Ossuary
1970
Jan Švankmajer: The Complete Short Films poster
Jan Švankmajer: The Complete Short Films
2007
The Last Trick poster
The Last Trick
1964
Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci poster
Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci
1981
Punch and Judy poster
Punch and Judy
1966
Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem poster
Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
1980
The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer poster
The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer
2003