Friday, April 11, 2008

pretty surreal



Here is a short film by a Czech surrealist filmmaker named Jan Švankmajer. He works a lot with claymation and puppetry, though this one (probably my favorite) features niether...I guess you would call this stop-motion demolition animation, or something. The short is called "Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor," and was released in 1965...think of it as a sort of updated Fantasia. Watch this through to the end, it's totally worth it.