An old friend from my Disney days just told me about her latest project: crowdfunding Jan Svankmajer’s final film, Insects. She asked, Could I help? There have always been other worlds of animation ...

Last week we brought you Meat Love, the stop-motion story of a doomed love affair between two steaks, by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. This week, we’ve been enjoying (if that’s the right word) Food ...

There’s allegory and there’s excess, and in his latest, longest feature to date, Czech animator-cum-director Jan Svankmajer seems to have lost sight of the line between making his point and gouging us ...