An old friend from my Disney days just told me about her latest project: crowdfunding Jan Svankmajer’s final film, Insects. She asked, Could I help? There have always been other worlds of animation ...

It’s been years since I saw my first Jan Svankmajer film, probably his most well-known, 1982’s 12-minute “Dimensions of Dialogue.” In the film, facing each other from across a table sit two life-sized ...

Connoisseurs of the disgustingly visceral will find Jan Svankmajer hardly mellowed at 72. Lunacy is dark, scary, and yucky—even by the Czech animator’s own standards. Svankmajer is the last true ...

This halfhour BBC documentary offers a revealing look at Svankmajer at work on Death of Stalinism in Bohemia and uses excerpts from his earlier films to trace the ...