Short films by Jan Svankmajer

Svankmajer here uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way that is deeply disturbing. His creativity and invention was something that I found brilliant, the films are so clever and for me these were the best yet. Despite having had breakfast half an hour previously and at certain stages throughoput the film feeling like it was all going to come back up I couldn't stop to throw up, I was transfixed by the genius of these films. In the first one two characters keep eating each other and as time goes by the broken up pieces they have eaten is regurgitated and forms the character all over again. Watching the mashing of a mix of foods from roast dinner to fruit to bread was a little too much at 10 in the morning, never the less it was brilliant to watch. The following film was similarly clever with 2 model characters sticking their tongues out, colliding two unrelated objects together, this sense of random fusion of the objects did not only remind you of the work of surrealists but it was qwerky and genius in the success with which individual details came together. For me these films were a cocktail of madness, creativity, and inspiration which created a fantastic spectre, showing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life.