23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

Jan Švankmajer Shorts 2 – Reflections about Fear or the Possibilities of the Human (actions, behaviours, personality traits)

May 05, Friday, 19:30 (75')

Cinemateca Portuguesa, Room Luís de Pina • C.436

Animated Self-Portraits (segment Svankmajer)

A challenge between colleagues: David Ehrlich, an animator, asks others (from Japan to Yugoslavia) to make their own portrait with the tools they use, and Jan Švankmajer’s answer is this film.

Jan Švankmajer

1989, 1'

The Last Trick

Jan Švankmajer’s first film, an animation about two mimes — Edgar and Schwarzwald, as flesh-and-blood actors and puppets — who try to perform increasingly extravagant tricks, fighting for the audience’s adoration.

Jan Švankmajer

1964, 10'

The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope

Jan Švankmajer brings together, in a fantastic and terrifying way, two stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “A Torture by Hope”, respectively.

Jan Švankmajer

1983, 15'

Dimensions of Dialogue

A surrealist animation about the inherent difficulties of human communication, in which clay bodies are transmuted in the most incredible ways.

Jan Švankmajer

1982, 11'

Virile Games

When a football game becomes an odyssey of inventive mutilations.

Jan Švankmajer

1988, 15'

The Flat

A short film without dialogue where a man is trapped in his apartment and the objects around him are indignant against him.

Jan Švankmajer

1968, 13'

Darkness-Light-Darkness

A human body under reconstruction that tries to understand where each component belongs.

Jan Švankmajer

1989, 10'

Retrospective

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