Our second film is 'Něco z Alenky' by Jan Švankmajer, an adaption of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is an example of European Art Cinema, a popular style of film making from the 1960s, which rejects the tenets of Hollywood Cinema. Jan Švankmajer was disappointed with other adaptions which portrayed the book as a fairy tale, and so developed his own film which presents itself as a dream. This enforces the films identity as an example of European Art Cinema as it intends to go directly against the previously established ideas present in other films about the same subject matter.
Jan Švankmajer uses stop motion animation in many of his films and Něco z Alenky is no different. As you'd expect from a film that has the intention of being dream-like, there is something vaguely (or perhaps not-so-vaguely) horrifying about the models used.
It may have simply been a one-off due to the volume of the film when it was played for us, but I personally think the audio warrants special mention. Its clear, loud nature seems to have an effect similar to the ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) in that it, in my case at least, created a relaxing sensation. However, some scenes have the exact opposite effect (the scene with the doll house and the piglet springs to mind in particular), so this may or may not have been intentional.
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