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Milano Film Festival shows the most important works of Svankmajer
On 4th September the 19th Milano Film Festival started, the yearly exhibition born to promote independent cinema and young authors. The festival is hosted in many charming locations all over Milan. This year, on the occasion of czech animation master Jan Svankmajer's 80th birthday, a retrospective took place in order to show his artistic path.

Svankmajer is considered the last successor of surrealist art movement, and one of the most important leaders of neo-avantgarde in the informal arts as well. His works mash up the horrific element in animation with his natural fabulous tradition and have been source of inspiration for a generation of famous film-makers whose most known exponents are Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.

His style is difficult to be classified. For the richness of his expression, Svankmajer's works are very appreciated also in these years. He received the prestigious Czech Lion Award four times and the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award twice. In 2013 he was awarded First Circolino Prize for innovation and creativity. The retrospective is organized by Milano Film Festival and Czech Centre.

The program of short movies of Jan Svankmajer is aimed at showing some of the methods of the master, unpredictable and completely flooring. The program includes seven short movies, from Don Juan (1969) to Flora (1989) and the full-lenght movie “Something on Alice” (1988), an innovative adaptation of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, where scenes and images are deconstructed to limit, searching a higher adherence with original novel.