Dimensions of Dialogue
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| - | ''[[Dimensions of Dialogue]]'' (''Možnosti dialogu'') ([[1982]]) is a [[stop-motion]] [[claymation]] short film by [[Jan Švankmajer]]. | + | '''''Dimensions of Dialogue''''' ('''Možnosti dialogu''') is a 1982 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by [[Jan Švankmajer]]. It is 14 minute long and created with [[stop motion]]. |
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| + | ==Plot== | ||
| + | The animation is divided into three sections. "Factual conversation" (Dialog věcný) shows [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo|Arcimboldo]]-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies; "Passionate discourse" (Dialog vášnivý) 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" (Dialogu vyčerpávajícím) 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. | ||
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| + | ==Accolades== | ||
| + | ''Dimensions of Dialogue'' won 3 major awards in 1983: the Grad Prix from the [[Annecy International Animated Film Festival]], and the Golden Bear for Best Short Film, and the C.I.D.A.L.C. Award (Honorable Mention) from the [[Berlin International Film Festival]]. It was also selected by [[Terry Gilliam]] as one of the ten best animated films of all time. | ||
| - | The film shows [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo|Arcimboldo]]-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies ("exhaustive discussion"); a clay man and woman who dissolve into one another sexually, then quarrel and reduce themselves to a frenzied, boiling pulp ("passionate discourse"); and two elderly clay heads who extrude various objects on their tongues (toothbrush and toothpaste; shoe and shoelaces, etc.) and use them in every possible combination, sane or otherwise ("factual conversation"). | ||
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Dimensions of Dialogue (Možnosti dialogu) is a 1982 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer. It is 14 minute long and created with stop motion.
Plot
The animation is divided into three sections. "Factual conversation" (Dialog věcný) shows Arcimboldo-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies; "Passionate discourse" (Dialog vášnivý) 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" (Dialogu vyčerpávajícím) 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.
Accolades
Dimensions of Dialogue won 3 major awards in 1983: the Grad Prix from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and the Golden Bear for Best Short Film, and the C.I.D.A.L.C. Award (Honorable Mention) from the Berlin International Film Festival. It was also selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.
