Jan Švankmajer’s ALICE + Director's Written Introduction - at the Savoy

Name: Jan Švankmajer’s ALICE + Director's Written Introduction - at the Savoy
Start: 2025-10-26T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Nottingham, United Kingdom | Nottingham, EN

To celebrate our 10th anniversary we are showing an all-time classic of stop-motion.
Jan Švankmajer’s Alice !
Accompanied by a written introduction from the Director

Here cometh the blurb ..
This is the classic Lewis Carroll story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as you’ve never seen it before.
Švankmajer’s first feature film blends live action, stop-motion animation and puppetry to create a fantastical world powered by Surrealism, dream logic and boundless creativity.
A desk drawer becomes a portal to another world where nothing is as it seems. Taxidermied animals spring back to life and consume their own sawdust stuffing as food. A baguette sprouts rusted metal nails like hair. Stopwatches are routinely slathered in butter. A ragtag crew of Frankenstein-like skeleton creatures rides around inside a pigeon-drawn carriage.
These are but glimpses of the strange world Alice encounters as she chases after the White Rabbit before reaching her final destination, an audience with the fearsome Queen of Hearts!
Kristýna Kohoutová gives a brilliant performance as the titular heroine that helps to guide us forward as we follow her through a dizzying parade of bizarre characters and weird scenes.
Alice is a heartfelt ode to the power of imagination, brought to life by a master filmmaker.
This is a true labour of love that demands to be seen on the big screen!

This screening will be accompanied by a written introduction from Alice director Jan Švankmajer, created for the film's original release.
We are hugely honoured and grateful to the team at Jan's production company Athanor for kindly providing us with this text.

Please note, we are screening Alice in Czech with English subtitles
- and as with all Porlock events, there wont be any trailers running before the film and we'll begin after a brief introduction ..

Here's a little snippet of Alice that Athanor put together as part of the crowdfunding campaign for Jan's final film, Insects