The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer1984
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love the brother Quay's body of work! they screened this at their Wexner gallery lecture, and they even signed flim & flam my twin marionette!
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love the brother Quay's body of work! they screened this at their Wexner gallery lecture, and they even signed flim & flam my twin marionette!
Playing with animated and static Archimbaldo (sp?) in 2 and 3 dimensional surfaces with Cornell's boxes being full of box drawers and an Escher mirrored sphere quietly playing in the corner. Obvious illusions of 3D among the 2D with eyes tricked in all possible directions. I think it was appropriate that Time Warner's downloading speed first jerked slower and faster and then, around the 9 minute mark, gave up. Tricks on the persistence of vision fading into still action. Did you bribe the network to add the ultimate layer of illusion.
ABBO FABBO!!! MORE SVANKMAJER, PLEASE
Wonderful
I've watched this one often, with delight and terror, one of the classics. It can even make you chuckle through the transfer of identify portrayed in the narrative.