Jan Svankmajer was born on September 4th 1934 in Prague, from a young age he was working with Puppets and puppet theater, then studied puppetry at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. His work is considered to be dark, humorous and bizarre, he uses a wide selection of techniques ranging from stop motion animation, claymation, puppet animation and live action to create his stories.
His first short film was released in 1964, not long after he'd left the Academy, and he soon became allied with the Czech surrealist movement. One of his most famous pieces was an adaption of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', that combined stop motion animation and live action. Alice was Svankmajer's first venture into feature length film-making as he had spent the previous two decades directing short films.
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