Jan Svankmjer is known as one of the world's best animators. He was born in Prague in 1934 and still lives today. He done all his training in Prague during the 1950's at a institute of Applied Arts and an Academy of Performing Arts. Creating his first film in 1964, he is responsible for some of the most memorable and unique animated films available. A lot of his films usually involve objects coming to life, he uses stop-motion on many of the objects and they are made out of clay as seen in his animation below.
To me this is one of the strangest things I have ever watched as everything is random and doesn't make any sense at all but it is so well done you just sit there and watch it trying to figure out how it is all happening.
In the majority of his work he uses Stop motion along side with live action, these pieces include Alice made which was made in 1988 which was his first feature-length film. This won the feature film award at the 1989 Annecy International Animated film festival. He often uses fast-motion sequences when people are walking and interacting but one of his trademarks are his exaggerated sounds. Although much of his work is made from a kids perspective such as Down to the Cellar they sometimes have a weird disturbing feel to them and are usualy in an aggressive manner. His latest work was in 2010 called Surviving Life but his next project is set for release in 2015.
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