Dimensions of Dialogue

Dimensions of Dialogue
Dimensions of Dialogue
Directed by	Jan ?vankmajer
Written by	Jan ?vankmajer
Cinematography	Vladimir Malik
Edited by	Helena Lebdu?kova
Music by	Jan Klusak
Distributed by	Kratky Film Praha
Release date	January 25, 1983 ;
Running time	14 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia

Dimensions of Dialogue ( Czech : Mo?nosti dialogu ) is a 1983 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan ?vankmajer . It is 14 minutes long and created with stop motion .

Plot [ edit ]

The animation is divided into three sections. "Eternal conversation" (Dialog v??ny) shows Arcimboldo -like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies; "Passionate discourse" (Dialog va?nivy) 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 vy?erpavajici) 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]

Reception [ edit ]

Terry Gilliam selected the film as one of the ten best animated films of all time. ^[3]

Awards [ edit ]

Annecy International Animated Film Festival 1983 ? Won Grand Prix
Berlin International Film Festival 1983 ? Won Golden Bear for Best Short Film , C.I.D.A.L.C. Award (Honorable Mention)

References [ edit ]

^ ?vankmajer, Jan (2014-03-27). Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art . ISBN 9780857735300 .
^ Re-animating the Lost Objects d'Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer
^ Gilliam, Terry (April 27, 2001). "Terry Gilliam Picks the Ten Best Animated Films of All Time" . The Guardian .

External links [ edit ]

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[1] ?vankmajer, Jan (2014-03-27). Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art . ISBN 9780857735300 .

[2] Re-animating the Lost Objects d'Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer

[The_Guardian-3] Gilliam, Terry (April 27, 2001). "Terry Gilliam Picks the Ten Best Animated Films of All Time" . The Guardian .

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v t e Films directed by Jan ?vankmajer
Filmography
Feature films	Alice (1988) Faust (1994) Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) Little Otik (2000) Lunacy (2005) Surviving Life (2010) Insects (2018)
Short films	The Last Trick (1964) A Game with Stones (1965) The Garden (1968) The Flat (1968) Picnic with Weissmann (1968) A Quiet Week in the House (1969) Don Juan (1969) Jabberwocky (1971) Leonardo's Diary (1972) Castle of Otranto (1977) Dimensions of Dialogue (1982) The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983) Meat Love (1988) The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990) Food (1992)

v t e Short Film Golden Bear Winners
1960s	To See or Not to See ? Bretislav Pojar (1969)
1980s	History of the World in Three Minutes Flat (1981) Moznosti dialogu (1983)
2000s	Black Soul (Ame noire) (2001)
2010s	Night Fishing (2011)
2020s	An Odd Turn (2024)