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Read the New York Times article from July 1, 2001 on the occasion of Film Forum's Jan Svankmajer retrospective
Jan Svankmajer: Alchemist of the Surreal Website
an amazingly comprehensive site from London which covers
Svankmajer's artwork as well as his films
Animation of Heaven and Hell in 3-D Website
an extraordinary site devoted to a number of 3-D animators
Svankmajer Shorts Collection Vol 1
Svankmajer Shorts Collection Vol 2
Selected Bibliography (Compiled by Steven Jay Schneider)
Books and articles by Jan Svankmajer
“An alchemist’s nightmares: Extracts from Jan Svankmajer’s diary.”
Kinoeye
vol. 2, no. 1, 7 January 2002
Anima Animus Animation
(Exhibition Catalogue). Prague: Slovart Publishers, Ltd. And Arbor Vitae Foundation for Literature and Visual Arts, 1998.
“L’avenir est aux machines impsatrices.”
La civilisation surréaliste, 1976, p. 197.
“Budoucnost patrí ipsacní strojum,
Analogon
4, p. 74.
“Dámy a pánové.”
Analogon
18, p. 130.
“Felaceus Oidipus.”
Surréalisme
2, 1977.
“Faust - filmovy scénár, fragment.”
Analogon
10, p. 54.
Hmat a Imaginace
(Touch and Imagination). Kozoroh, 1994.
“Humor a sen.”
Analogon
11, p. 85.
“La langue.”
Change mondial
II, 1975.
“Magie predmetu,
Analogon
7, p. 49.
“Na okraj Orientacní poznámek.”
Analogon
17, p. 9.
“Ohoník cudny.”
Analogon
13, p. 28.
“Otesánek - ukázka ze scénáre.”
Analogon
14, p. 72.
“Otevrena hra.”
Surrealistické skupiny v Ceskoslovensku 1969-1979, 1979.
“Out of my head.”
The Guardian, 19 October, 2001
“Repas.”
Bulletin de la liason surréaliste
5, 1972.
“Le restaurateur.”
Surréalisme
1, 1977.
“Spiklenci slasti úryvek ze scénáre.”
Analogon
16, p. 24.
“Taktilní imaginace,
Analogon
3, p. 62.
“Three Scenarios.”
Afterimage
13, p. 38.
“Z taktilního deníku,
Analogon
6, p. 53.
Interviews with Jan Svankmajer
Geoff Andrew, “Malice in Wonderland.”
Time Out, October 19-26, 1988, pp. 16-17
Geoff Andrew, “A Faust Buck.”
Time Out, September 1994
Anonymous. “Svankmajer on
Alice.”
Afterimage
13, Autumn 1987, p. 51
Vratislav Effenberger, “Svankmajer on
The Fall of the House of Usher.” Trans. by Gaby Dowdell.
Afterimage
13, 1987, p. 33
Peter Hames, “Bringing up baby: Jan Svankmajer interviewed about
Otesánek
(Little
Otík, 2000).”
Kinoeye
vol. 2, no. 1, 7 January 2002.
Originally appeared in
Sight and Sound
vol. 11, no. 10, October 2001, pp. 26-28.
Peter Hames, “Interview with Jan Svankmajer.” In
Dark Alchemy, cited below.
Wendy Jackson, “The Surrealist Conspirator: An Interview with Jan Svankmajer.”
Animation World Magazine
vol. 2, no. 3, June 1997
Galina Kopanevová, “O jiném filmu s Janem Svankmajerem, Jirím Lehovcem a Karlem Vachkem.”
Film a doba
7, 1969, p. 360.
Petr Král, “Questions á Jan Svankmajer.”
Positif
297, 1985.
Petr Král, “Questions to Jan Svankmajer.” Trans. by Jill McGreal,
Afterimage
13, 1987, p. 22
SF Said, “After revolution, the shit!”
The Context
Ludvík Sváb, “Jan Svankmajer o svém novém filmu
Zaník domu Usheru.”
Film a doba
5, 1982, p. 293.
Jason Wood, “A Quick Chat with Jan Svankmajer and Eva Svankmajerová.”
Kamera.co.uk
Articles about Jan Svankmajer
Wakagi Akatsuka, “The Wager of a Militant Surrealist: On Jan Svankmajer’s
The Death
of Stalinism in Bohemia.” © The Slavic Research Center, 1998
Brigid Cherry, “Dark Wonders and the Gothic sensibility: Jan Svankmajer’s
Neco z
Alenky
(Alice, 1987).”
Kinoeye
vol. 2, no. 1, 7 January 2002
Dirk de Bruyn, “Re-animating the Lost Objects d’Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer.”
Senses of Cinema, vol. 1, no. 14, 2001
Vratislav Effenberger, “Between Idea and Reality: Svankmajer’s
Castle of Otranto.” Trans. by Gaby Dowdell,
Afterimage
13, 1987, pp. 44-46
Jan Uhde, “The Arcimboldo of Animation.”
Kinema, Fall 1995
Jan Uhde, “The bare bones of horror: Jan Svankmajer’s
Kostnice
(The Ossuary, 1970).”
Kinoeye
vol. 2, no. 1, 7 January 2002
Jan Uhde, “Jan Svankmajer: The Prodigious Animator from Prague.”
Kinema, Spring 1994
Paul Wells, “Animated anxiety: Svankmajer, Surrealism and the ‘agit-scare.’”
Kinoeye
vol. 2, no. 16, 21 October 2002
Books and articles about Jan Svankmajer
Oldrich Adamec. “Animované filmy Jana Svankmajera.”
Film a doba
no. 11, October 1966, pp. 559- 60, 563-64.
Michael Beddow, “Dialogues with the Devil.”
Times Literary Supplement
no. 4776, October 14, 1994, p. 22.
Robert Benayoun, “Jan Svankmajer et ses paliers.”
Positif
no. 346, pp. 46-47.
Roger Cardinal, “Thinking through Things: The Presence of Objects in the Early Films of Jan Svankmajer.” In
Dark Alchemy, cited below.
Angela Carter, “Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room.” In
American Ghosts & Old
World Wonders
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1993).
Michel Ciment and Lorenzo Codelli. “Entretien avec Jan Svankmajer.”
Positif
no. 345, pp. 45-47.
Lorenzo Codelli, “Annecy 1985.”
Positif
no. 297, November 1985, pp. 32-37.
Frantisek Dryje, “A Play Dream/A Dream Play.”
Monthly Film Bulletin, November 1988, p. 320 (translation of an article from the Czech surrealist journal
Gambra).
Frantisek Dryje, “The Power of Imagination.” In
Dark Alchemy, cited below.
Gilles Dunant, ed.,
Jan Svankmajer, l’animateur. Annecy: JICA, 1985 (Special publication for the Animated Film Festival).
Birgit Gerhardt, “Svankmajer: Death, Surrealism and Assorted perversions.”
The
Chronicles
(London Vampyre Group) no. 9, 1998, pp. 12-13.
Peter Hames, ed.,
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer. Westport: Praeger, 1995.
Peter Hames, “The Film Experiment.” In
Dark Alchemy, op. cit.
Simeona Hosková & Kveta Otcovská, eds.,
Jan Svankmajer: Transmutation of the
Senses. Czech Republic: Edice Detail, Central Europe Gallery and Publishing House, Husova 21, Praha 1, 1994.
Michael O’Pray, “Between slapstick and horror.”
Sight and Sound, September 1994, p. 20.
Michael O’Pray, “In the Capital of Magic.”
Monthly Film Bulletin
vol. 53, no. 630, July 1986, p. 218-19.
Michael O’Pray, “Jan Svankmajer’s Films: A Mannerist Surrealist.” In
Dark Alchemy, op. cit.
Michael O’Pray, “A Svankmajer Inventory.”
Afterimage
13, 1987, p. 10.
Michael O’Pray, “Surrealism, Fantasy and the Grotesque: The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer.” In
Fantasy and the Cinema, ed. James Donald. London: BFI Publishing, 1989.
Paulo Antonio Paranagua, “Hommage à Jan Svankmajer surrealiste tchèque.”
Positif
no. 224, November 1979, pp. 58-60.
Chris Petit, “Picked-up Pieces.”
Monthly Film Bulletin
no. 53, June 1986, pp. 164-65.
Julian Petley, “Historia Naturae, Suita.”
Monthly Film Bulletin
no. 53, July 1986, pp. 221-22.
Julian Petley, “The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer Prague’s Alchemist of Film.”
Monthly
Film Bulletin
no. 53, June 1986, pp. 188-89.
Terrence Rafferty, “All Sizes.”
The New Yorker, August 8, 1988.
Tony Reveaux, “A Dark Looking Glass.”
Artweek, April 1988, p. 6.
Philip Strick, “Alice.”
Monthly Film Bulletin, no. 658, November 1988, p. 319.
Jan Uhde, “Beyond the Genre Formula: Implicit Horror in the Films of Jan Svankmajer.” In
Horror International, ed. Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
Jan Uhde, “The Film World of Jan Svankmajer.”
Cross Currents
8, 1989, pp. 195-208.
Amos Vogel,“Hallo Berlin.”
Film Comment
vol. 24, no. 3, May-June 1988.
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