Jan Švankmajer

Ironic cinematic magician and analyst of our conscious and unconscious lapses and passion. The original puppeteer training Semafor started in their own theater masks and direction participated in the Laterna Magica. Since the midsixties failed film as a medium in his best free play of imagination opened. His animated and combined film crosses species boundaries and genres and fascinate audiences around the world, penetrating trauma antiobsessional and modern humanity. Position as an independent artist the filmmakers have been drawn up under the totalitarian regime and continued by even now, when from Lesson Faust (Lekce Faust, 1994) focuses exclusively for feature films, every time a surprising nonconformance intellectual ingenuity and craftsmanship.