Czech Republic,
1968, 13 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 received the Persistence of Vision Award.
OTHER
A classic surrealist film about a man inexplicably trapped in a room of malevolent objects. In turn paranoid, funny, menacing, melancholic, but always technically brilliant, it is an exhilarating call for freedom.
—Michael O’Pray
FACTOID #78
Now among California’s political luminaries, former ambassador Shirley Temple Black and Representative Nancy Pelosi both worked at the Festival in their days as civilians. Temple assisted in film selection in the mid-’60s and Pelosi planned Festival events in the ’70s.
