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THE BIZARRE WORLD OF CZECH FILMMAKER JAN SVANKMAJER

By | June 2001

The films of Czech animator and director Jan Svankmajer are bizarrely beautiful: a witty blending of the perverse, the macabre, and the child-like. The American Cinematheque will present a special showing of Svankmajer’s work in Los Angeles…

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