A Game with Stones
1965 film by Jan Švankmajer
- 1965 (1965)
Running time
A Game with Stones (German: Spiel mit Steinen; Czech: Hra s kameny) is a 1965 short animated film by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer.[1] It utilizes stop-motion animation.[2]
Themes
The animator uses a motif of clocks and stones, accompanied by bizarre sounds and a xylophone/music box score. The film makes use of texture and pattern, with an emphasis on the dichotomy of black and white. The use of old and antique objects reappears in many of the filmmaker's later works.
Production
The film was Švankmajer's first collaboration with Austrian producer Alexander Hans Puluj and cinematographer Peter Puluj, who were both born in Prague. They were sons of a famous physicist Ivan Puluj. The whole film was shot in an Austrian farmhouse.[3]
References
External links
- A Game with Stones at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by Jan Švankmajer
- Alice (1988)
- Faust (1994)
- Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
- Little Otik (2000)
- Lunacy (2005)
- Surviving Life (2010)
- Insects (2018)
- The Last Trick (1964)
- A Game with Stones (1965)
- The Garden (1968)
- The Flat (1968)
- Picnic with Weissmann (1968)
- A Quiet Week in the House (1969)
- Don Juan (1969)
- Jabberwocky (1971)
- Leonardo's Diary (1972)
- Castle of Otranto (1977)
- Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
- The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)
- Meat Love (1988)
- The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)
- Food (1992)
 | This article related to a short animated film of the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
