Dimensions of Dialogue | Jan Svankmajer (1982)
Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer.
It is 14 minutes long and created with stop motion.
Jan Svankmajer’s stop-motion work uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way which is deeply disturbing. The first film of his that I saw was Alice, and I was extremely unsettled by the image of an animated rabbit which had real fur and real eyes. His films always leave me with mixed feelings, but they all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life.
