Jabberwocky (1971 film)

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Jabberwocky
Directed by	Jan Švankmajer
Produced by	Erna Kmínková Marta Sichová Jirí Vanek
Written by	Jan Švankmajer
Music by	Zdenek Liska
Cinematography	Boris Baromykin
Editing by	Helena Lebdusková
Distributed by	STM
Release date(s)	1971
Running time	14 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech
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Jabberwocky (Czech: Žvahlav aneb šatičky slaměného Huberta) is a 1971 experimental animated short film from Czechoslovakia. The film was written and directed by Jan Švankmajer, based on the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. It was produced by Erna Kmínková, Marta Sichová, Jirí Vanek, and animated by Vlasta Pospísilová.

In the film, the poem by Lewis Carroll is read and a wardrobe is shown moving through a forest. The wardrobe contains a strange playroom inside that is watched over by an old man in a portrait. ^[1] The film switches between images of dolls, toys in a nursery, and paper planes to images of dismembered dolls, maggot-infested vines, and a black cat being thrown through a window.^[2]

[edit] DVD

Jabberwocky was included on a DVD entitled CINEMA16 with over 3 1/2 hours of short films which was released by the studio Warp Films on June 5, 2006.^[3]