Czech artist Jan Švankmajer (1934) is considered one of the greatest animation masters of our time. While working in a puppet theater, he developed a love for film. He continued to experiment with avant-garde film techniques, revolutionising the animation genre. His films, full of eroticism, violence, urges, and dream images, have won numerous awards and stand out for their dark and subversive tone and atmosphere, for instance, in The Garden (1968). Since 1990, he has been a member of the Czech Surrealists Group.
