The little eating
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The little eating |
| Original title | Jídlo |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 16 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jan Švankmajer |
| script | Jan Švankmajer |
| occupation | |
Das kleine Fressen (Original title: Jídlo ) is an animated short film by the Czech surrealist artist Jan Švankmajer from 1992. The film , created with clay animation and pixilation , examines the relationship between people and food in three episodes.
action
breakfast
A man enters a room, sits down, and brushes the remains of the last dinner off the table. Another man is sitting across from him, wearing a piece of paper on a chain around his neck. The first man stands up and follows the instructions on the slip of paper. He stuffs money down the man's throat and pokes in his eye. The second man's shirt opens by itself and a food elevator appears where the man's chest should have been. The first man takes his food and hits the other on the chin.
When he finishes eating, he kicks the others in the shins to get a napkin. After wiping his mouth he experiences convulsions. He limps and now the other man comes to. He stretches and puts the note on the table. He gets up and makes a mark on the wall. A new man enters the room and the procedure is repeated.
Having lunch
Two men, a businessman and a vagabond, are sitting in the restaurant and are ignored by the waiter. They begin to eat all sorts of things around: the flowers on the table, their shoes, pants, shirts, underwear, plates, the tablecloth, the table, and the chairs. The vagabond watches the businessman and eats what he eats. When there is nothing left to eat, the businessman begins to eat his cutlery - the vagabond imitates him. The businessman laughs and pulls his own cutlery out of his mouth. The businessman attacks the vagabond with a knife and fork.
dinner
The film shows a surreal restaurant in which the restaurant guests eat parts of themselves. A rich man refines his creation with many sauces and spices - his plate is invisible for all the spices. He rams a fork into a wooden hand. Shortly afterwards he begins to eat his own hand. Next door, an athlete is eating his lower leg, a woman is enjoying her breasts and a man is eating his genitals.
criticism
A film review in the New York Times describes the film as " funny with a biting undertone ", but at the same time says that the film is " weak ". The reason for this is believed to be that "it must have been too risky for Svankmajer in the 1970s to include a [deeper] political allegory in the film ". The film is “ too simple in its statement about how people are devoured by mechanistic states and themselves. “A film review by the 3sat film editorial team said:“ […] Jan Svankmajer [designs] in 'Das kleine Fressen' a gloomy allegory of eating and being eaten and the effects of political systems on the individual. "
Web links
- The little eating in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "A Mutant Tom Thumb Born Outside Time" , film review by Caryn James , New York Times on the film The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb with references to Das kleine Fressen , April 13, 1994, accessed February 26, 2008
- ↑ "The Magician of Prague - Films by Jan Svankmajer" ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 3sat film editorial team, August 20, 2004, accessed February 26, 2008
