Jan Svankmajer

Jan Svankmajer is one of the great Czech filmmakers. He was born in 1934 in Prague where he still lives. He trained at the Institute of Applied Arts from 1950 to 1954 and then at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (Department of Puppetry). He soon became involved in the Theatre of Masks and the famous Black Theatre, before entering the Laterna Magika Puppet Theatre where he first encountered film. Svankmajer made his first film in 1964 and for over thirty years has made some of the most memorable and unique animated films ever made, gaining a reputation as one of the world's foremost animators.

His work consists of many short films, like “Dimensions of dialogue” and six films: “Alice”, “Faust”, “Conspirators of pleasure”, Little Otik” and “Surviving life”.

I love this filmmaker because he has a style unique. His work in stop-motion is amazing… I like because  achieve to talk about body and the humans with dolls.

Here his photo…

Here his self-portrait, with his special style of to do cinema...