{"id":17132,"date":"2015-08-12T01:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T00:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17132"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:33:08","slug":"the-cabinet-of-jan-svankmajer-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/08\/12\/the-cabinet-of-jan-svankmajer-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cabinet of Jan \u0160vankmajer, a film by the Brothers Quay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SYFZ4kIRaNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/quays1.jpg\" alt=\"quays1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A busy week here (for a change) so this is a bit of a lazy choice but there is a <em>Wunderkammer<\/em> present. The Quays made this in 1984 for a \u0160vankmajer documentary, and it&#8217;s still one of my favourites: \u0160vankmajer as subject, lots of Prague references, and wonderful music (borrowed from \u0160vankmajer&#8217;s own films) by Zden\u011bk Li\u0161ka. This is also one of the few films you&#8217;ll see with animated characters demonstrating some film animation of their own. Watch it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SYFZ4kIRaNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SYFZ4kIRaNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/quays2.jpg\" alt=\"quays2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-quay-brothers-archive\/\">The Quay Brothers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u0160vankmajer documentary, and it&#8217;s still one of my favourites: \u0160vankmajer as subject, lots of Prague references, and wonderful music (borrowed from \u0160vankmajer&#8217;s own films) by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/08\/12\/the-cabinet-of-jan-svankmajer-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cabinet of Jan \u0160vankmajer, a film by the Brothers Quay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,7],"tags":[399,375,146,2663,5099],"class_list":["post-17132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-film","tag-brothers-quay","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-prague","tag-stanislaw-lem","tag-zdenek-liska"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4sk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}