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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The wondrous, sometimes bizarre work of the celebrated Czech animator and surrealist Jan Svankmajer has inspired admirers far and ...

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.

Based on a Czech folktale, “Little Otik” centers on an infertile couple who decide to adopt a tree stump as their child. Under their care, the chunk of wood, named Otik, comes to life and develops an ...