A conversation in three parts. Exhaustive Discussion is an Arcimboldo-style meditation on the original and the copy. Meanwhile, Passionate Discourse is the rebirth of a man and a woman emerged from clay. It all is concluded by Factual Conversation – two clay heads create everything required for human hygiene and comfort.
Surrealist baroque animation. One of Švankmajer’s most conceptually rich and successful pieces, having won the Grand Prix at Annecy Festival and the Golden Bear at the Berlinale. Over time, it has become a pinnacle of his stop-motion technique, as well as the tribute to psychoanalysis of the animation virtuoso – as the surrealists and the director himself have said, “there is only one poetry.”