Dimensions of Dialogue
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| director = Jan Švankmajer
| writer = Jan Švankmajer
| music = Jan Klusák
| cinematography = Vladimír Malík
| editing = Helena Lebdušková
| distributor = Krátký Film Praha
| released = {{Film date|1983|1|25}} {{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jqaHAwAAQBAJ&q=dimensions+of+dialogue+jan+svankmajer+1983&pg=PA137-IA3 |title = Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art|isbn = 9780857735300|last1 = Švankmajer|first1 = Jan|date = 2014-03-27| publisher=I.B.Tauris }}
| runtime = 12 minutes
| country = Czechoslovakia
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Dimensions of Dialogue ({{langx|cs|Možnosti dialogu}}, lit.: Possibilities of Dialogue) is a 1983 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer. It is 12 minutes long and created with stop motion.
Plot
The animation is divided into three sections. Objective Dialogue (Dialog věcný) shows Arcimboldo-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies; Passionate Dialogue (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 Dialogue (Dialog vyčerpávající) 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.[http://sensesofcinema.com/2001/cteq/svankmajer/ Re-animating the Lost Objects d'Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer]
Reception
Terry Gilliam selected the film as one of the ten best animated films of all time.{{cite news| last=Gilliam | first=Terry | title=Terry Gilliam Picks the Ten Best Animated Films of All Time | newspaper=The Guardian | date=April 27, 2001 | url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,479022,00.html}}
Awards
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival 1983 – Won Grand Prix
- Berlin International Film Festival 1983 – Won Golden Bear for Best Short Film, C.I.D.A.L.C. Award (Honorable Mention)
References
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External links
- {{imdb title|0084362}}
- [http://tativille.blogspot.com/2005/08/dimensions-of-dialogue.html Dimensions of Dialogue - Tativille]
{{Jan Svankmajer}}
{{Short Film Golden Bear Winners}}
Category:1983 animated short films
Category:Czechoslovak animated short films
Category:Films directed by Jan Švankmajer
Category:Stop-motion animated short films
Category:Czech animated short films
Category:Film censorship in the Czech Republic
Category:Films scored by Jan Klusák
Category:Annecy Cristal–winning films
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