The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled as a separate short.
Direction
Quay Brothers' animated framing devices are pure aesthetic devotion.
Editing
Seamless marriage of archival footage and stop-motion reverence.
Director
Stephen Quay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Channel Four commissioned this as part of their legendary 1980s arts programming, before the animated links were surgically removed for standalone distribution.
This doc essentially imported Czech surrealism to British living rooms years before Švankmajer's feature films cracked the international arthouse circuit.
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