{"id":70385,"date":"2016-05-26T13:45:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=70385"},"modified":"2016-05-26T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:37:30","slug":"jan-svankmajer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2016\/05\/26\/jan-svankmajer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Svankmajer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Celebrated filmaker Jan Svankmajer is closer than ever to making his final project a reality – and you can be a part of it.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n The 81\u00a0year-old stop-motion auteur Jan Svankmajer has had a career spanning half a century and myriad different medium. Among his most celebrated and recognisable feature films are Alice<\/i>,\u00a0Faust<\/em>, and\u00a0Little Otik<\/em>, all of which exhibit his surrealist bent and uncompromising, intelligent outlook. In art as in life, Svankmajer is serious about the value of integrity, declaring on his website: \u201cThis civilisation we live in has no interest in authentic artistic creation…What it needs is well-working advertisement, the iconographic contemporary art, pushing people towards more and more mass consumption. Consumerism keeps this society running.\u201d<\/p>\n With that kind of principled attitude, it’s little wonder that Svankmajer had opted to crowd-fund his swansong project – his final feature film – on Indiegogo. Every day brings him, and his countless fans the world over, one step closer to the picture, entitled Insects<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>becoming a reality. Based on the 1922 Capek Brothers’ play\u00a0Pictures From The Insects’ Life<\/em>, the movie is set to explore the murky depths of the human ego with all the wit and visually detailed beauty (just take a look at some of the lithography above and below) we’ve come to expect from the director. With a unique chance to contribute to cinema history, the only question left to ask is: what are you waiting for<\/a>?<\/p>\n