Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales

Milos Forman once offered, "Disney + Buñuel = Svankmajer."
Jan Svankmajer's new DVD "The Ossuary and Other Tales" is out. It contains some of his less known and underrated masterpieces:

"The Last Trick" - Two magicians try to outdo each other in performing magic tricks, where the last trick would be disappearance of both. As in "Dimensions of Dialogue", "The Last Trick" explores inability to communicate and impossibility of dialogue and understanding.

1964/color/11:30 mins

"Historia Naturae" - mesmerizing parade of myriads of images composed of eight sections, each devoted to a different category of creature. These are: Aquatilia, Hexapoda, Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia, Simiae and Homo

1967, color, 9 mins

"Johann Sebastian Bach" - great combination of music and images

1965, black & white, 9:30 mins

"Don Juan"

1970/color/31 mins

Based on The Don Juan story, Svankmajer made this 30 minutes long festival of the colors, images, and unique...

A little preview of the contents.
Here is the material from the Kimstim/Kino site. Since Amazon seems to know nothing about it.

*****

Since his first film in 1964, Jan Svankmajer (LITTLE OTIK, LUNACY) has made some of the most memorable and unique movies ever made. Animator, poet, sculptor, designer and self-proclaimed "militant Surrealist," his films present a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action. Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty and perversely visceral. Or, as the great director Milos Forman once offered, "Disney + Buñuel = Svankmajer."

KIMSTIM is proud to present this second astounding collection of remarkable short works from an artist who has mesmerized audiences the world over and has inspired filmmakers from the Brothers Quay to Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.

"Unless we again begin to tell fairy tales and ghost stories before going to sleep and recounting our dreams...

Not Anamorphic
I'm not complaining about the content, but rather the DVD mastering. Anamorphic technology was already in existence for more than six years when King Video produced this disc. There is no excuse.

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