Jan Svankmajer - 1971 - Jabberwocky (1/2)

Uninterrupted version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjPdYVxwQyU

Jan Svankmajer - 1971 - Jabberwocky (Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta)

Svankmajer's first adaptation of Lewis Carroll's world described by the director as "a Freudian record of the development of a child through all its stages: through homosexuality and Sado-Masochism to rebellion against the father"

source: http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2001/svankmajer.htm

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[832486426]

The music is ridiculously beautiful

[bulelachion]

@832486426 The music is by Zdenek Liška. All the films he's made music for are worth seeing if even just for his music. But generally the films are brilliant too. Next to the Svankmajer shorts, I'd definitely recommend Valerie and her Week of Wonders, The Little Mermaid and Fruit of Paradise. See mubi.com/cast_members/7418

[joestl314]

I won't even attempt to understand this.

[Ultrasecond]

Love the music in this, especially the part with the dolls being musical chaired and cooked.

This film to me feels like it's supposed to be about childhood and growing up from a child's perspective - so the playplace is uninhabited by people.

Also what happens with the dolls seems to be partly in reference to the very strange things kids would do with their dolls. Similar things happen during the part with the soldiers and army being ruined by a baby bottle.

[rem2267]

Did the cat make anyone else think of "Confuse a Cat" from Monty Python?

[rem2267]

Jan Svankmajer does Terry Gilliam.

[michikuTV]

genius

[832486426]

@bulelachion Thank you so much for that, I will definitely be checking those out. And thank you for the upload! Svankmajer is brilliant :)

[Joeyg143]

4:45 THE ORIGINAL SCARY MAZE GAME.

[TomaPartizani]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[BaronBrell]

This is about children growing up in a world of capitalism and war, and how new children absorb the world and become one with these things.

[pivotladder]

am i the only one scared by this?