Jan Švankmajer: The Complete Short Films

The Chronicles of Bad Luck

2015

Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine

The small town of Pinchcliffe is experiencing a great lack of snow, which is why the inventor Reodor Felgen is asked to create a snow machine. However

2013

Salmon

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed anim

2015

Ta mort en short(s)

2018

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2022

In There

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

2018

Jù Rén

A seed is planted. A school of fish washes up onto a barren land. Whilst all the fish leap back into the sea, one wriggles deep into the land.

2020

Rotten Child

Stop-motion animation in which sixty-something Harold still lives with his aged mother Hendrina. This is far from snug: the embittered mother puts her

2022

The Adventures of Ricardo

A day in the life of young boy with a distorted vision of the world. 3 short little claymation episodes - Ricardo Discovers "Sex," Ricardo's Hero and

1993

Magda

A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden mannequins.

2004

Architecture

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive structur

1980

O the Grass Was Warm!

Packing away at his late father’s apartment, a stoic man finds himself grappling with grief and anger. Unable to cope yet refusing to open up, he retr

2021

The Birth

Short stop motion animation with finger nails.

2009

My Life as a Zucchini

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orpha

2016

Posted No Hunting

An encounter in the woods is captured on a trail cam.

2021

Adamski

A subjective view of an UFO. Shot frame-by-frame along the Tama River.

2008

Coaxo

A little frog falls asleep after a long day of work on his farm, but is awakened from his slumber by a mysterious noise.

2023

Egg

A microscopic tale of epic tragedy. One pea-sized pirate quests to slay his golden nemesis in this surrealistic, stop-motion animated retelling of Her

2005

The Witty Witch

An ever-witty witch makes Gumby and Pokey her "captive audience" for her one-witch show!

1960

Hidden Valley

Hidden Valley is the name of a place which no one has ever been to, no one has ever come from, and no one can locate. But we know it exists, because G

1960