The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer

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The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer is a 1984 British surreal short stop-motion film by the Quay Brothers, an homage to the influential short film maker Jan Švankmajer.

Summary

It is structured as a series of little lessons on perception at Prague in a form of a puppet simulacrum of Svankmajer, whose head is an opened book, to a doll whose head the masters empties of dross and refills with a similar open book.

Availability

Available as part of the Phantom Museums DVD collection of Quay Brothers shorts.

References

Brooke, Michael. "Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, The (1984)". Screenonline. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
Amazon.com
MUBI
Zeitgeist Films
Kino Lorber International

External links

v t e Brothers Quay
Feature films	Institute Benjamenta (1995) The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)
Short films	The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984) The Epic of Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom (1985) Street of Crocodiles (1986) The Sandman (2000) In Absentia (2000)
Miscellaneous	Quay (2015 documentary)

v t e Films directed by Jan Švankmajer
Filmography
Feature films	Alice (1988) Faust (1994) Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) Little Otik (2000) Lunacy (2005) Surviving Life (2010) Insects (2018)
Short films	The Last Trick (1964) A Game with Stones (1965) The Garden (1968) The Flat (1968) Picnic with Weissmann (1968) A Quiet Week in the House (1969) Don Juan (1969) Jabberwocky (1971) Leonardo's Diary (1972) Castle of Otranto (1977) Dimensions of Dialogue (1982) The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983) Meat Love (1988) The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990) Food (1992)

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