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Animist Cinema
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By the time Jan Švankmajer became generally known to English-speaking audiences, he was already some two decades into his career. Dimensions of Dialogue (Možnosti dialogu, 1982) had become a darling of the festival and museum circuit, winning prizes at Annecy and Berlin for best short. It was his seventeenth film—the third since his liberation from what effectively amounted to a state-imposed ban from filmmaking (1973–1979). By virtue of that circumstance, its reception must have been especially gratifying. ...
Title: Animist Cinema
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By the time Jan Švankmajer became generally known to English-speaking audiences, he was already some two decades into his career.
Dimensions of Dialogue (Možnosti dialogu, 1982) had become a darling of the festival and museum circuit, winning prizes at Annecy and Berlin for best short.
It was his seventeenth film—the third since his liberation from what effectively amounted to a state-imposed ban from filmmaking (1973–1979).
By virtue of that circumstance, its reception must have been especially gratifying.
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