Alice

1988. Svankmajer’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland mixes animation and live action to create a dreamlike world, but it is not simply a kid’s film.

Alice watches a stuffed and mounted rabbit come to life in her playroom and follows it through a magical drawer into a strange world that resembles a 19th-century toy store come to life.

Svankmajer uses familiar objects in unfamiliar ways, giving a fantasy quality to the banal (and the not so banal) while tipping the dream logic to the edge of nightmare. The movie may have a somewhat disturbing effect on the viewer.