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Jan Švankmajer

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Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. [1]

86 relations: A Game with Stones, A Quiet Week in the House, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Alice (1988 film), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Andrew Johnston (critic), Animafest Zagreb, Animation, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Brothers Quay, Castle of Otranto (film), Christopher Marlowe, Clay animation, Conspirators of Pleasure, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Dimensions of Dialogue, Dinner for Adele, Doctor Faustus (play), Doktor Faust, Don Juan (1969 film), Edgar Allan Poe, Emil Radok, Eva Švankmajerová, Faust, Faust (1994 film), Film director, FilmAffinity, Food (film), Franz Kafka, Goethe's Faust, Hugh Cornwell, Insects (film), International Federation of Film Archives, Jabberwocky, Jabberwocky (1971 film), Jiří Barta, Jiří Trnka, Jindřich Polák, Josef Čapek, Juraj Herz, Karel Čapek, Karel Jaromír Erben, Karel Zeman, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Ladislas Starevich, Laterna Magika, Leonardo's Diary, Lewis Carroll, List of stop motion films, ..., Little Otik, Lunacy (film), Mannerism, Marquis de Sade, Meat Love, Návštěvníci (TV series), Oldřich Lipský, Picnic with Weissmann, Pictures from the Insects' Life, Pixilation, Prague, Puppetry, Sedlec Ossuary, Semafor, Stop motion, Surrealism, Surrealist cinema, Surviving Life, Terry Gilliam, The Castle of Otranto, The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Flat (1968 film), The Garden (1968 film), The Last Trick, The Metamorphosis, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, The New York Times, The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, The Torchbearer, Time-lapse photography, Upír z Feratu, Vratislav Effenberger. Expand index (36 more) »

A Game with Stones

A Game With Stones (Czech: Hra s kameny), (German: Spiel mit Steinen) is a nine-minute animated film by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer.

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A Quiet Week in the House

A Quiet week in the House (Tichý týden v dome) is a 1969 Czechoslovak live-action/animated short film by Jan Švankmajer.

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Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Akademie múzických umění v Praze, AMU) is a university in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic, specialising in the study of music, dance, drama, film, television and multi-media.

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Alice (1988 film)

Alice is a 1988 dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

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Andrew Johnston (critic)

Andrew Johnston (1968–2008) was a film and TV critic.

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Animafest Zagreb

World Festival of Animated Film Zagreb (Svjetski festival animiranog filma), also known as Animafest Zagreb, is a film festival entirely dedicated to animated film held annually in Zagreb, Croatia.

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Animation

Animation is a dynamic medium in which images or objects are manipulated to appear as moving images.

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Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer.

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Brothers Quay

Stephen and Timothy Quay (born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers who are better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers.

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Castle of Otranto (film)

Castle of Otranto (Otrantský zámek) is a 1977 Czechoslovak animated short film by Jan Švankmajer.

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

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Clay animation

Clay animation or claymation, sometimes plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop motion animation.

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Conspirators of Pleasure

Conspirators of Pleasure (Spiklenci slasti) is a 1996 black comedy film by Jan Švankmajer.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Dimensions of Dialogue

Dimensions of Dialogue (Možnosti dialogu) is a 1982 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer.

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Dinner for Adele

Dinner for Adele (Adéla ještě nevečeřela) is a 1977 Czechoslovak comedy detective film directed by Oldřich Lipský.

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Doctor Faustus (play)

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593.

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Doktor Faust

Doktor Faust is an opera by Ferruccio Busoni with a German libretto by the composer himself, based on the myth of Faust.

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Don Juan (1969 film)

Don Juan (Don Šajn) is a 1969 Czechoslovak short film by Jan Švankmajer, based on traditional Czech puppet plays of the Don Juan legend.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Emil Radok

Emil Radok (22 May 1918 – 7 January 1994) was a Czech film director.

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Eva Švankmajerová

Eva Švankmajerová (September 25, 1940 – October 20, 2005) was a Czech surrealist artist.

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Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540).

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Faust (1994 film)

Faust is a 1994 film directed by Jan Švankmajer.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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FilmAffinity

FilmAffinity is a movie recommendations website created in 2002 in Madrid, Spain by the film critic Pablo Kurt Verdú Schumann and the programmer Daniel Nicolás.

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Food (film)

Food (Jídlo) is a 1992 Czech animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer that uses claymation and pixilation.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Goethe's Faust

Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two.

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Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock/new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990.

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Insects (film)

Insects (Hmyz) is a surreal comedy film directed by Jan Švankmajer, the film is based on the play Pictures from the Insects' Life by Karel and Josef Čapek.

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International Federation of Film Archives

The International Federation of Film Archives (Fédération internationale des archives du film, FIAF) was founded in Paris in 1938 by the Cinémathèque Française, the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin, the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Jabberwocky

"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock".

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Jabberwocky (1971 film)

Jabberwocky (Žvahlav aneb šatičky slaměného Huberta) is a 1971 Czechoslovak animated short film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer, based loosely on the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.

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Jiří Barta

Jiří Barta (born 26 November 1948) is a Czech stop-motion animation director.

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Jiří Trnka

Jiří Trnka (24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969) was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director.

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Jindřich Polák

Jindřich Polák (5 May 1925 – 22 August 2003) was a Czech film and television director.

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Josef Čapek

Josef Čapek (23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet.

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Juraj Herz

Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scenic designer who was born when Kežmarok was a part of Czechoslovakia.

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Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer of the early 20th century.

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Karel Jaromír Erben

Karel Jaromír Erben (7 November 1811 – 21 November 1870) was a Czech folklorist and poet of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection Kytice (Bouquet), which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.

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Karel Zeman

Karel Zeman (November 3, 1910 – April 5, 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation.

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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic.

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Ladislas Starevich

Ladislav Starevich (Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич, Władysław Starewicz; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Lukanida (1912).

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Laterna Magika

Laterna magika, the world's first multimedia theatre, was founded as a cultural program at the 1958 Brussels Expo.

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Leonardo's Diary

Leonardo's Diary (Czech: Leonardův deník) is a 1972 stop-motion animated short.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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List of stop motion films

This is a list of films that showcase stop motion animation, and is divided into three sections: Animated features, Live action features, and Animated shorts.

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Little Otik

Little Otik (Otesánek), also known as Greedy Guts, is a 2000 Czech film by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová.

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Lunacy (film)

Lunacy (Šílení) is a 2005 Czech film by Jan Švankmajer.

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Mannerism

Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 and lasted until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it.

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Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality.

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Meat Love

Meat Love is a 1989 Czechoslovak animated short film directed and animated by Jan Švankmajer.

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Návštěvníci (TV series)

Návštěvníci (The Visitors) is a Czechoslovak sci-fi TV series filmed between 1981 and 1983 by Czech director Jindřich Polák.

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Oldřich Lipský

Oldřich Lipský (4 July 1924, Pelhřimov – 19 October 1986, Prague) was a popular and influential Czech film director, brother of actor Lubomír Lipský.

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Picnic with Weissmann

Picnic with Weissmann (German: Picknick mit Weissman) is a 1968 Czechoslovak animated short film by Jan Švankmajer.

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Pictures from the Insects' Life

Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu) – also known as The Insect Play, The Life of the Insects, The Insect Comedy, The World We Live In and From Insect Life – is a satirical play that was written in the Czech language by the Brothers Čapek (Karel and Josef), who collaborated on some 20 stage works, of which this is the most famous.

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Pixilation

Pixilation (from pixilated) is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Puppetry

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.

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Sedlec Ossuary

The Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice v Sedlci) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých), part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.

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Semafor

Semafor is a theatre in Prague, Czech Republic, established by Jiří Suchý and Ferdinand Havlík in 1959.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Surrealist cinema

Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s.

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Surviving Life

Surviving Life (Přežít svůj život) is a 2010 Czech comedy film by Jan Švankmajer, starring Václav Helšus, Klára Issová and Zuzana Kronerová.

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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

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The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.

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The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia is a 1990 animated independent short film.

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The Fall of the House of Usher

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839.

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The Flat (1968 film)

The Flat (Byt) is a 1968 Czechoslovak animation and comedy film directed by Jan Svankmajer.

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The Garden (1968 film)

The Garden (Zahrada) is a 1968 Czechoslovak animation film directed by Jan Svankmajer.

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The Last Trick

The Last Trick (Poslední trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara) is a 1964 Czechoslovak animated short film by Jan Švankmajer.

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The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.

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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (Tajemství hradu v Karpatech, literally "The Mystery/Secret of the Castle in the Carpathians") is a 1981 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope

The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (Kyvadlo, jáma a naděje) is a 1983 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's story "".

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The Pit and the Pendulum

"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

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The Premature Burial

"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper.

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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" is a dark comedy short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe.

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The Torchbearer

The Torchbearer (Světlonoš) is a 2005 Czech animated short film written and directed by Václav Švankmajer.

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Time-lapse photography

Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence.

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Upír z Feratu

Upír z Feratu, also known as Ferat Vampire is a 1982 Czechoslovak horror film directed by Juraj Herz.

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Vratislav Effenberger

Vratislav Effenberger (22 April 1923 in Nymburk; - 10 August 1986 in Prague) was a Czech literature theoretician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Švankmajer

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