A busy week here (for a change) so this is a bit of a lazy choice but there is a Wunderkammer present. The Quays made this in 1984 for a Svankmajer documentary, and it’s still one of my favourites: Svankmajer as subject, lots of Prague references, and wonderful music (borrowed from Svankmajer’s own films) by Zdenek Liska. This is also one of the few films you’ll see with animated characters demonstrating some film animation of their own. Watch it here.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• More Brothers Quay scarcities
• Eurydice…She, So Beloved, a film by the Brothers Quay
• Inventorium of Traces, a film by the Brothers Quay
• Maska: Stanislaw Lem and the Brothers Quay
• Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
• Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
• Brothers Quay scarcities
• Crossed destinies revisited
• Crossed destinies: when the Quays met Calvino
• The Brothers Quay on DVD