To say that Jan Švankmajer (Prague, 1938) is one of the great masters of animation is an affirmation that we share with anyone who has ever met her work. Known primarily for his film work -more than twenty short films (among them dimensions of dialogue, The Fall of the House of Usher, Jabberwocky or Food) and five feature films (Alicia, La Fausto lesson Conspirators of Pleasure, Otesánek, and Surviving to life) -, Jan Švankmajer is primarily a manufacturer of powerful images in the service of the subversive imagination.

Grower creative procedures ranging from the use of puppets to collage, drawing object mediumship, applies to its unique exploration of the tactilismo and integrates them all in his film work, which is one of the most dazzling and disturbing findings the second half of the twentieth century.

Actively involved in the surrealist movement from 1970 to the present. His work has influenced artists of the stature of the Quay Brothers, Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, to name a few well known names.