Jan Švankmajer’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Jan Švankmajer has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s.
Recurring themes
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Dir. Jan Švankmajer · With Ludvík Šváb, Josef Fiala, Bedřich Glaser

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
Dir. Jan Švankmajer · With Veronika Žilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
Dir. Jan Švankmajer
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
Dir. Jan Švankmajer

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be.
Dir. Jan Švankmajer · With Kristýna Kohoutová