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A short love story of two slices of meat. After some initial hints, the passion quickly catches fire but soon ends up on a sizzling hot frying pan. Even though it’s short, this film has everything a proper love story ought to have. Everything is performed by brilliantly animated raw meat and the film has a very naturalistic sound.

It seems that to use dirt to create an anatomically perfect being is no problem at all. The problem is, however, that the gradual “construction” of the dirt man takes place in a small room. Despite that, the process is finished, but something must have gone wrong. This excellently animated film was made at the turn of two historic decades and was premiered after the Velvet Revolution.

For this film, Jan Švankmajer allegedly found inspiration in his childhood, which was affected by a food phobia. While he portrayed breakfast as a very bizarre vending machine, lunch gets out of control of the diners and the restaurant itself and the dinner is disturbingly autocannibalistic. This pixilated film also masterfully uses claymation.

Scenes from the household of a football fan start completely realistically. The man turns on the TV and opens a beer. The game is about to start. Our fan doesn’t seem to be disconcerted by what is happening on the screen. The players eliminate each other in very original ways. The borders between broadcast and experience get blurry and football suddenly comes out of the screen into the man’s home.

A short allegorical spectacle starring a Arcimboldoesque character tied to a bed. The patient is obviously sick and the vegetables and fruits that he is made of slowly decompose. A seemingly detached sound combining industrial noises, a siren and creaking sounds turns this piece almost into a horror.

In this film, Švankmajer was inspired by Czech folk puppet theatre from the 19th century – with its ruthlessness, rawness and narrative shortcut. Švankmajer created his version of Don Juan according to different variants of Don Juan texts, but his story extends far beyond the stage – it reveals the backstage mechanism and expands outside of the theatre.