Jan Svankmajer
DirectorWriterProduction Designer
- Born
- September 4, 1934
After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after…
Director
| Kunstkamera(2022) |
| Insect(2018) |
| Surviving Life(2010) |
| Cinema16: European Short Films(2007) |
| Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films(2007) |
Writer
| Kunstkamera(2022) |
| Insect(2018) |
| Surviving Life(2010) |
| Lunacy(2005) |
| The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Later Years Vol. 2(2003) |
Producer
| Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace(2020) |
| Little Otik(2000) |
| Clovek a technika(1967) |
Editor
| Clovek a technika(1967) |
Production Designer
| Surviving Life(2010) |
| Lunacy(2005) |
| Little Otik(2000) |
| Faust(1994) |
| Food(1992) |
Art Director
| Insect(2018) |
| Conspirators of Pleasure(1996) |
| Faust(1994) |
| Alice(1988) |
Costume Designer
| Little Otik(2000) |
| Conspirators of Pleasure(1996) |
Art Department
| Conspirators of Pleasure(1996) |
| Freckled Max and the Spooks(1987) |
| Frankenstein's Aunt(1987) |
| Skalpel, prosím(1985) |
| The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians(1981) |
Special Effects
| Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci(1981) |
Visual Effects
| Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy(1981) |
| The Ninth Heart(1979) |
Animation Department
| The Three Veterans(1984) |
| The Visitors(1983) |
| The Fall of the House of Usher(1982) |
| Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet(1978) |
| Don Juan(1969) |
Additional Crew
| Seven Days of Sin(2012) |
| Shameless(2008) |
| Nejkrásnejsí hádanka(2008) |
| Dark Blue World(2001) |
| Kolya(1996) |
Thanks
| Fatum(2025) |
| Kaleidoscope(2015) |
| Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk(2014) |
| My Last(2014) |
| White Rabbit(2011) |
Self
| Kunstkamera(2022)as Self |
| Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace(2020)as Self |
| CinéKino(2016)as Self |
| Hudba Zdenek Liska(2017)as Self - Interviewee |
| Raymond Roussel: Le Jour de Gloire(2017)as Self |
Archive Footage
| Unknown Movies(2013)as Self |
| L'Oeil du cyclone(1991)as Self |