After watching bits from Little Otik I was a little freaked out. Its one of the strangest things I think I have seen but I really like the way Svanmajer has intertwined the skill of stop motion together with live action. I think that it works really well in getting across the fact that this couple believe that this tree stump is an actual child. Svankmajer has been described as a mad genius of cinema, and this clearly comes across in his work even though I have only seen little snippets of things. I have read that like many Disney films little Otik is based on a European folktale but while Disney cleans these stories up to have a sugar coating Svankmajer plunges into the dark side of these stories maybe portraying them for what they really are.
Some other work…..
Meat Love (1989)
Alice
