Jan Svankmajer

After wanting to look back into surrealism, and also asking for an artists name on the facebook group, i was lead to the work of surrealist movie maker Jan Svankmajer.Svankmajer has gained a reputation over several decades for his distinctive use of stop-motion technique, and his ability to make surreal, nightmarish and yet somehow funny pictures. He is still making films in Prague at the time of writing.
Svankmajer's trademarks include very exaggerated sounds, often creating a very strange effect in all eating scenes. He often uses very sped-up sequences when people walk and interact. His movies often involve inanimate objects coming alive and being brought to life through stop-motion. Food is a favourite subject and medium. Stop-motion features in most of his work, though his feature films also include live action to varying degrees. i looked into his work and found some of them very interesting, some not revlivent but it is still good. i enjoyed watching the short, dark/light/dark which has no real narrative. what i did like was some of the facial expressions on the face of the head. (see below)

Also i enjoyed the second part of Svankmajer's Dimensions of Dialogue which is weird, but good, i just think its the expressions in his work that makes it all that much better, that and the odditys of what is going on. i like the first dialogue on this clip with the male and female and how they work together but end up distroying each other.