We were talking about how our simple 2D animations were still a primitive form of stop motion animation, which led us to put this one at a rather later time than might be considered harmonious. There's something strange, surreal, eerie and slightly frightening about this treatment.
We agreed that we'd never seen a more sinister White Rabbit, and that Kristyna Kohoutova who plays Alice was really good.
The mix of live and stop motion animation, amidst Svankmajer's curiously designed, crumbling world is fascinating, but eventually chatter took over - difficult to sustain a film like this over a length of time (86 minutes, for the record).
The title translates as 'Something from Alice', which is a good enough description.
No music. Photographed by Svatopluk Malý.
Jan Svanmajer is 91 and still living in the Czech Republic.
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