Leviathan
By Simon Bogojevic Narath
HRV 2006
Irish premiere
Who is the creature built from people? Why is it wearing a crown and what is it doing with a pastoral in one hand and a sword in the other?
Jerky but smiling characters from this short film will take the audience through this animated pageant inspired by a book by Thomas Hobbes called The Leviathan , written in 1651.
Dur: 14:40
Lunacy
By Jan Svankmajer
CZ 2005
Official Selection
Irish première
The creative diversity of Jan Svankmajer exceeds the limits of film. Practicing since the end of the 1950s, his literary expression is marked by blasphemous black humour and a playful viewpoint, together with a penetrating critical intellect.
Lunacy is his most recent work whose plot incorporates ideas from two stories by Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial and The Mad Psychiatrist, and whose main character was inspired by The Marquis de Sade. Although the story appears to be set in early 19 th Century France , the film contains many deliberate anachronisms which remind us that this is an allegory of the modern world. And what better setting for this world than a lunatic asylum?
Lunacy weaves the tale of Jean Berlot who suffers from vivid, destructive nightmares, the blasphemous Marquis, his mute servant Dominic and the seemingly innocent Charlotte.
Svankmajer himself describes this film as a 'philosophical horror', whose theme is absolute freedom, civilizational repression and manipulation. Like much of his recent work, this new feature mixes live action with his unique brand of surreal stop-motion animation.
Dur: 1:18:00
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