Jan Svankmajer

Father of Václav Svankmajer.

[on main theme of his films] The film Sílení (2005), but also Zahrada (1968) and Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), is mainly about freedom. It seems to me that the way civilization is evolving, the theme of freedom is becoming the only theme for which it still makes sense to sit down and create art. Though, I prefer the word "freeing" to the word "freedom" because it is a never-ending process.