Comments: Participated in seminar on Eastern European cinema in 1993. Appeared when WR: Mysteries of the Organism was chosen for Indelible Images by Wayne Wang in 1998.
A surrealist stop-motion animator, the Czech Jan Svankmajer, was the first recipient of the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award in 1997. The POV Award honors the lifetime achievement of a filmmaker who works outside of feature-length narrative filmmaking.