Jan Švankmajer, the 81-year-old surrealist Czech animator, along with his longtime producer Jaromír Kallista, has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the filmmaker’s final project, Insects.

Surreal, grotesque and censor-baiting, Jan Švankmajer’s films have been getting him into trouble for years. Jonathan Jones meets him in Prague For today’s film-makers, getting your work shown at the ...

The 1200-square-metre exhibition space at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam has been transformed until March 3 into an extraordinary cabinet of curiosities containing works by the celebrated Czech animator, ...

Surviving Jan Švankmajer’s latest surrealist nightmare, Matthew Tempest reports from the front line - military as well as cinematic - of the 2006 Rotterdam international film festival There is a ...

This feature-length profile of Jan Švankmajer, the endlessly influential Czech Surrealist filmmaker and animator, opens with a piece to camera from the man himself. Lamenting that the film we’re about ...

One of the most deeply influential animators of the past many decades is Czech’s Jan Švankmajer. From his groundbreaking short Dimensions of Dialogue to features like Alice and Faust, his surrealist ...

Jan Švankmajer's minor work is meta approach to a 1920s satirical play designed to expose the thin line between insect and human behavior. Lesser works by great directors needn’t diminish ...

Modern Art is presenting A Vanished Wholeness, an exhibition of drawings and works on paper dating from 1923 to 2025. The Czech artist Jan Švankmajer (*1934 in Prague, lives in Prague and Horní ...

Švankmajer’s long-time producer Jaromír Kallista, of the Czech outfit Athanor, noted that The Alchemical Furnace managed to draw more attention to the filmmaker’s extensive collection of art objects ...

Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones. Records reviewed by WIRED ...