After his farewell feature, Insect, the world-renowned Czech surrealist is now the subject of a documentary helmed by Adam Oľha. Imaginative Czech surrealist painter, filmmaker and animator Jan Švankmajer bade farewell to feature-length filmmaking with a comedic drama about preparing the Čapek brothers’ play Pictures from the Insect’s Life (also known as The Insect Play). However, this film, Insect, was itself the subject of another making-of, a behind-the-scenes shoot mapping the process of how Insect was put together, helmed by Slovakian documentarian Adam Oľha (New Life of a Family Album). “Adam Oľha was supposed to make a film about Insect, but in the process of preparing it, Jan Švankmajer decided that he was not solely going to ‘toy’ with the principle of theatre within theatre, but was also going to enrich it with a kind of ‘film about a film’, and the footage shot by Oľha became part of the.
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