Czech Republic,
1982, 15 min
Shown in 1997
CREDITS
- dir
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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 1997 Persistence of Vision Award.
OTHER
The Flat reworked from the disturbing viewpoint of a young girl whose nightmarish descent into a cellar becomes a surrealistic guide to the unconscious.
—Michael O’Pray
FACTOID #304
After its U.S. premiere at the 1969 Festival, the print of Z by Costa-Gavras was stolen from the locked projection room of the Masonic Auditorium.
