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Jan Svankmajer (Hardcover)
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Jan Svankmajer (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Film Directors
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Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is
famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer
draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation,
collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre filmscapes.
If these creative choices are off-putting to some, they have
nonetheless won the Czech filmmaker recognition as a visionary
animator. Keith Leslie Johnson explores Svankmajer's work as a
cinema that spawns new and weird life forms "hybrids of machine,
animal, and non-organic materials like stone and dust. Johnson's
ambitious approach unlocks access to the director's world, a place
governed by a single, uncanny order of being where all things are
at once animated and inert. For Svankmajer, everything is at stake
in every aspect of life, whether that life takes the form of an
object, creature, or human. Sexuality, social bonds, religious
longings "all get recapitulated on the stage of inanimate things.
In Johnson's view, Svankmajer stands as the proponent of a
biopolitical, ethical, and ecological outlook that implores us to
reprogram our relationship with the vital matter all around us,
including ourselves and our bodies.
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