Dimensions of Dialogue

Dimensions of Dialogue
Dimensions of Dialogue
Directed by	Jan Švankmajer
Written by	Jan Švankmajer
Cinematography	Vladimír Malík
Edited by	Helena Lebdušková
Music by	Jan Klusák
Distributed by	Krátký Film Praha
Release date	January 25, 1983;
Running time	14 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia

Dimensions of Dialogue (Czech: Možnosti dialogu) is a 1983 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer. It is 14 minutes long and created with stop motion.

Plot[]

The animation is divided into three sections. "Eternal conversation" (Dialog věčný) shows Arcimboldo-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies; "Passionate discourse" (Dialog vášnivý) shows a clay man and woman who dissolve into one another sexually, then quarrel and reduce themselves to a frenzied, boiling pulp; and "Exhaustive discussion" (Dialog vyčerpávající) consists of two elderly clay heads who extrude various objects on their tongues (toothbrush and toothpaste; shoe and shoelaces, etc.) and intertwine them in various combinations.^[2]

Reception[]

Terry Gilliam selected the film as one of the ten best animated films of all time.^[3]

Awards[]

Annecy International Animated Film Festival 1983 – Won Grand Prix
Berlin International Film Festival 1983 – Won Golden Bear for Best Short Film, C.I.D.A.L.C. Award (Honorable Mention)

References[]

^ Švankmajer, Jan (2014-03-27). Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art. ISBN 9780857735300.
^ Re-animating the Lost Objects d'Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer
^ Gilliam, Terry (April 27, 2001). "Terry Gilliam Picks the Ten Best Animated Films of All Time". The Guardian.

External links[]

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[1] Švankmajer, Jan (2014-03-27). Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art. ISBN 9780857735300.

[2] Re-animating the Lost Objects d'Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer

[The_Guardian-3] Gilliam, Terry (April 27, 2001). "Terry Gilliam Picks the Ten Best Animated Films of All Time". The Guardian.

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v t Films directed by Jan Švankmajer
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Short films	The Last Trick (1964) A Game with Stones (1964) The Garden (1968) The Flat (1968) Picnic with Weissmann (1968) A Quiet Week in the House (1969) Don Juan (1969) Jabberwocky (1971) Leonardo's Diary (1972) Castle of Otranto (1977) Dimensions of Dialogue (1982) The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983) Meat Love (1988) The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990) Food (1992)