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Moznosti dialogu
12 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1982
Other
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Designer: Jan Svankmajer

The film is a dizzy, passionate kaleidoscope of things and bones of contentions that make any dialogue and understanding impossible. It is a warning against ambivalence towards seeming values and securities. Jan Svankmajer used in this picture the technologies of assemblage, collage, object animation and human actors animated through modeling. "Dimensions of Dialogue" is one of the most famous and successful Czech animated pictures and a masterpiece of both Czech and world animation.

Awards: The main prize - "Golden Bear" - West Berlin 1983, Grand Prix + FIPRESCI prize - Annecy 1990, The prize for the best animated film + Cultural Foundation Prize - Melbourne 1983, "The best film of all years of the festival" - Annecy 1990

All films directed by Jan Svankmajer:
Coffin Factory • Darkness, Light, Darkness • Dimensions of Dialogue • Et cetera • The Fall of The House of Usher • The Flat • Manly Games • The Otrants Castle • The Pendulum, the Pit and the Hope • A Quiet Week in a House

All films designed by Jan Svankmajer:
Coffin Factory • Darkness, Light, Darkness • Dimensions of Dialogue • Et cetera • The Fall of The House of Usher • The Flat • Manly Games • The Otrants Castle • The Pendulum, the Pit and the Hope • A Quiet Week in a House