Jan Kraus

  • Jan Svankmajer – Jídlo AKA Food (1992)

    1991-2000AnimationComedyCzech RepublicJan Svankmajer

    Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.Read More »

  • Jan Svankmajer – Lekce Faust AKA Faust (1994)

    1991-2000AnimationArthouseCzech RepublicJan Svankmajer

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    …Faust was originally intended as a production for the Laterna magika theatre. Svankmajer describes it as a “variety collage” in which elements from Marlowe, Goethe, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Gounod and the Czech folk puppet play (Kopecky) are all framed by the reality of contemporary Prague… The films hero, an ordinary man in a dirty raincoat, lives in a rundown flat in Prague. Here (as in Conspirators of Pleasure), it is noticeable that Svankmajer avoids any exotic images of “tourist Prague”, preferring nondescript streets and down-at-heel cafes serving nauseous food… Like Alice Faust moves from scene to scene and from one world to another but, this time, also from text to text, with a time out for the occasional cigarette or glass of beer.Read More »

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