Jan Svankmajer

Another one of my favourite short film maker is - Jan Svankmjer.

This video listed below, Darkness Light Darkness, is by far my favourite film by Svankmjer.  It encapsulates the idea that life is a rollar-coaster - 

It is bright and dim, simultaneously. 

The feeling of being crowded, to being Lonely -  These are both emotions we feel and what I think Jan is trying to articulate, is that,

It's ok. 

At least, that is what I received from it, when I watched it three years ago, and still continue to watch it.

 

 Taken from his website: 

One of the great Czech filmmakers, JAN SVANKMAJER was born in 1934 in Prague where he still lives. He trained at the Institute of Applied Arts from 1950 to 1954 and then at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (Department of Puppetry). He soon became involved in the Theatre of Masks and the famous Black Theatre, before entering the Laterna Magika Puppet Theatre where he first encountered film. In 1970 he met his wife, the surrealist painter Eva Svankmajerova, and the late Vratislav Effenberger, the leading theoretician of the Czech Surrealist Group, which Svankmajer joined and of which he still remains a member.