Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The wondrous, sometimes bizarre work of the celebrated Czech animator and surrealist Jan Svankmajer has inspired admirers far and ...

Surreal, grotesque and censor-baiting, Jan Švankmajer’s films have been getting him into trouble for years. Jonathan Jones meets him in Prague For today’s film-makers, getting your work shown at the ...

Jan Švankmajer, the 81-year-old surrealist Czech animator, along with his longtime producer Jaromír Kallista, has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the filmmaker’s final project, Insects.

The 1200-square-metre exhibition space at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam has been transformed until March 3 into an extraordinary cabinet of curiosities containing works by the celebrated Czech animator, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Svankmajer has worked in many genres and media, and is best known for such features as “Alice” (1988), “Faust” (1994), ...

Modern Art is presenting A Vanished Wholeness, an exhibition of drawings and works on paper dating from 1923 to 2025. The Czech artist Jan Švankmajer (*1934 in Prague, lives in Prague and Horní ...

Jan Svankmajer, 67, is a Czech filmmaker, animator and mixed media artist who made his first animated film back in 1964. Employing such devices as stop-action, claymation, puppetry and pixillation — ...

Athanor Production Co. has started an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for 81-year-old noted Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer’s latest project, a surreal film called “Insects.” He says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The wondrous, sometimes bizarre work of the celebrated Czech animator and surrealist Jan Svankmajer has inspired admirers far and ...

The wondrous, sometimes bizarre work of the celebrated Czech animator and surrealist Jan Svankmajer has inspired admirers far and wide for two generations, from Terry Gilliam to the Brothers Quay. A ...