Surrealist Animation

Destino (1946 -1999)

Salvador Dali signed a contract with Walt Disney to make a short animate film entitled Destino

Production of this film was brought to a halt because of financial difficulties and only 17 seconds of test animation was completed.

In 1999 while working on Fantasia 2000, Walt Disney's nephew Roy E Disney unearthed the project and decided to have it completed.

Dreams of Dali: 360 Degree Video (2016)

This Animation was based of the painting Archaeological Reminiscence of millet's Angelus (1935)

The Animation was made for the Salvador Dali Museum, Inc, in St Petersburg, Florida, USA

made by Goodby Sliverstien and Partners, San Francisco, CA

Terry Gilliam (And Monty Python's Flying Circus) (1969-74)

Monty python was known for it's surrealist, absurd comic sketches during its run.

Gilliam had complete creative control over the animated interstitials

Sketches created using "table top cut-out animation" technique which consisted of a combination of original and stock images cut from paper and collaged together.

Walerian Borowcyzk

Polish Film Maker and animator

Using the characters from his 1962 short film The concert of Mr and Mrs Kabal, Boriwcyck made Mr and Mrs Kabal's Theater in 1967

Features minimal scratchy drawings, animated photo's and deconstructed live action.

Fantastic Planet (1973)

Directed by Rene Laloux. Laloux taught painting at a psychiatric clinic in the 1950's and introduced the patients to shadow puppetry and film. These short films led to meeting French illustrator Roland Topor to whom he collaborated on three films.

Jan Svankmajer

Czech Surrealist Filmmaker. His first film, Leonardo's Diary, was shown at cannes in 1974 and denounced by a Czech film Critic in the communist press as a strange piece of fantasy without socialist content.

He experienced waves of censorship and at one point was banned from film making for eight years.

Jabberwocky (1971)

Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)

Alice and Wonderland (1988)

Food (1992)

Faust (1994)

Full Breackdown of Jan Svankmajer

http://cinemajam.com/mag/features/jan-svankmajer

Jan Svanksmajers work is odd, if you went into watching these films for only a light viewing, you wouldn't understand what they were talking about. But however I can see in these films that there is a deeper meaning. I thought it was intriguing. Watching Jabberwocky was a good example of this. At a glance its an absolute mess, but once you can really look at this you can see the films about growing up, perhaps something about disobedience to adult figures from a kids perspective.