Picnic with Weismann (1968)

• 70%
• 1968
• Animation
• Jan Švankmajer

Picnic with Weissmann / Picknick mit Weissmann [1968] (10:41) In a woodland clearing, a man's possessions and furniture enjoy a quiet few hours without him. 78rpm records play, a chess board engages in a game with itself, three chairs and a dresser play football, a plate camera takes portraits, and a pair of pyjamas lounge on a bed and eat plums. Meanwhile a shovel busies itself digging a large, rectangular hole. The surrealism of dislocating objects from their normal environment is explored to seemingly playful effect, but there's a dark twist to the tale that allows for a number of readings of what has gone before.