Jan SvankmajerJan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop motion animation, collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre filmscapes. If these creative choices are off putting to some, they have nonetheless won the Czech filmmaker recognition as a visionary animator. Keith Leslie Johnson explores Svankmajer's work as a cinema