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.
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Directed by | Jan Švankmajer |
Written by | Jan Švankmajer |
Cinematography | Vladimír Malík |
Edited by | Helena Lebdušková |
Music by | Jan Klusák |
Distributed by | Krátký Film Praha |
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Running time | 14 minutes |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
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]
Terry Gilliam selected the film as one of the ten best animated films of all time.[3]
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