Thursday, November 6, 2008

Jan Svankmajer's "Meat Love"

This is from his Wikipedia page: Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others.

Švankmajer'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.


7 comments:

Stephanie said...

lololol

that was dirty..

That was pretty rad though, I'm going through all his videos now! Thanks for making me stay up another hour past my bedtime!! :)

Mikkel Østman said...

Wow - that was.... different!

Michal Sänger said...

Hi form Czech republic!

When talking about food and Svankmajer, try his Otesanek you will love it =)

Angie ^i^ said...

LMAO.. as if the title wasn't suggestive enough... 8-O

Anonymous said...

bad steaks, bad! lol

Anonymous said...

"I'm just a piece of meat to you!"

Anonymous said...

this is probably as horrible as 50's food fashion...

mmmm jello salad...