Detsino
January 14, 1946. Salvador Dali signed contract with Disney, short animated film Destino.
Production halted after 8 monthd because of financial difficulties. Only 17 seconds made.
1999, while working on Fantasia 2000, Roy E. Disney unearthed the project and completed it.
Dreams of Dali, based on Dali's painting Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet Angelus.
Terry Gilliam (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
Monty Python, surrealist, absurd comics during it's run from 1069-74. Gilliam had complete creative control over the animated interstitial.
Sketches were created using "table top/Cut-out animations" Combination of original and stock images, collaged together.
Walerian Borowcyzk
Polish filmmaker and animator. Using characters from his 1962 short film The Concert of Mr and Mrs Kabal. The Concert of Mr and Mrs Kabal'S Theater in 1967.
Features minimal scratchy drawings, animated photo's and deconstructed live action.
Fantastic Planet
Rene Laloux, taught painting at a psychiatric clinic in the 1950's and introduced the patients to shadow puppetry and films.
These short films led to meeting French illustrator Roland Topor with whom he collaborated on three films.
Jan Svankmajer
Czech surrealist filmmaker. Leonardo's Diary was shown at Cannes in 1974. Denounced by Czech film critic as a piece of fantasy without socialist context. He experienced waves of censorship, banned for 8 years from film making.
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