I recently watched a video showing the early works of Jan Švankmajer, aka the god father of surrealist animations and features, and gained a lot of insight into the diversity which can be achieved through time based image making. His trademarks of absurd sounds often eating, bringing food to life along with a whole other host of inanimate objects, and perspective through the eyes of a child are combined with aggressive and unsettling scenes or plots. Yet I was surprised that in result of this the films became almost comical whether from their sheer madness or Švankmajer's flippant approach to the disturbing nature of the film. My personal favourite had to be the living fence.
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