We had our first inaugural CinemaSampler Party this weekend with the theme Devil on my Shoulder. One of the pieces presented was a very short clip from a very trippy filmmaker (thank you Rory): Jans Svankmajer's Don Juan. Svankmajer is a Czech film maker whose actors are human-sized marionettes who inhabit the screen without human manipulation. He's been making films since the 1950's and he's still going strong; his most recent release is due out in 2015. Critics laud him as having influenced other cinema big-wigs such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay.
Though we only saw a sliver of the film, it was haunting, the way the wooden figures come to life, like carved figures escaped from some medieval cathedral. You can see a bit of it here:
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