Heartstrings: Xue Geng & Serge Onnen

115 minutes

What’s the thing with animation? In the talk show Heartstrings, animation filmmakers and art connoisseurs present their favourite films. Perhaps, the productions inspired them to make their own films or they can relate to their aspirations.

This program screened as part of Haff 2015

Showing in this program

Alice

Jan Svankmajer
Czech Republic, 1988
86 min.

First feature film by Jan Svankmajer, master of the Czech surrealist animation film and source of inspiration for directors like Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam. Adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s famous novel Alice in Wonderland in a sinister combination of animated puppets and live action. Alice ends up in a miraculous world when she follows a talking rabbit into a table drawer. She meets all sorts of strange creatures and peculiar characters, in a world between dream and nightmare. In Svankmajer’s hands, Wonderland becomes more wondrous than ever before. And with its dark overtones, it is no longer purely a children’s story.