what terry gilliam said about this movie in the guardian:

"It was at the Sitges film festival that I first saw an exhibition of work by the pioneering Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz, and the puppets were so enrapturing that when I got home I ordered up all the tapes I could find of his work. His work is absolutely breathtaking, surreal,inventive and extraordinary, encompassing everything that Jan Svankmajer, Walerian Borowczyk and the Quay Brothers would do subsequently. This is his last film, after The Tale of the Fox from 1930; it is all right there in this cosmic animation soup. It is important, before you journey through all these mind-bending worlds, to remember that it was all done years ago, by someone most of us have forgotten about now. This is where it all began."

he must be a fan of jan svankmajer...

jan svankmajer is just beautiful...

*animation

amazing! did they do a whole episode of this???

reminds me of "darkness light darkness" (by jan svankmajer) or "your face" (by bill plympton)...