Czech Republic,
1971, 14 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 received the Persistence of Vision Award.
OTHER
Decomposition and fragmentation hover between a repugnant dream and the innocence of a nursery in this homage to Lewis Carroll.
FACTOID #361
John Huston, director of classics The Maltese Falcon and The Misfits, was honored with a Festival tribute in 1968. His daughter Anjelica received the Peter J. Owens Award in 1991; The Dead, one of the father-daughter duo’s collaborations, screened at her onstage interview.
