Czech Republic,
1982, 12 min
Shown in 1997
CREDITS
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Jan Svankmajer
- source
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Kino International, 333 West 39th Street, New York, NY 10018. FAX: 212-714-0871
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COMMENTS
Screened in the program Jan Svankmajer: Alchemist of the Surreal. Svankmajer was the recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award in 1997.
OTHER
This bleak and disturbing vision of the impossibility of dialogue in politics, the family and mankind itself is a tribute to the influential 16th-century Mannerist painter Arcimboldo.
—Michael O’Pray
FACTOID #80
Irving ’Bud’ Levin, owner of San Francisco’s Metro Theatre, founded the SFIFF in 1957. However, Levin credited the idea for creating the Festival to the Italian consul general at the time, Pierluigi Alvera, who became one of its staunchest supporters.
