Jabberwocky (Czech: Žvahlav aneb šatičky slaměného Huberta) is a 1971 experimental animated short film from Czechoslovakia. The film was written and directed by Jan Švankmajer, based on the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. It was produced by Erna Kmínková, Marta Sichová, Jirí Vanek, and animated by Vlasta Pospísilová.

In the film, the poem by Lewis Carroll is read and a wardrobe is shown moving through a forest. The wardrobe contains a strange playroom inside that is watched over by an old man in a portrait. ^[1] The film switches between images of dolls, toys in a nursery, and paper planes to images of dismembered dolls, maggot-infested vines, and a black cat being thrown through a window.^[2]

The film is an assault on 'the system' - educational, parents, justic etc. The ending of the film contains an ink blob escaping from an occurring maze, freeing itself from life's constrains. It then defaces the image of the old man (the authority figure) and flees out of the window.

[edit] DVD

Jabberwocky was included on a DVD entitled CINEMA16 with over 3 1/2 hours of short films which was released by the studio Warp Films on June 5, 2006.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jabberwocky at the Internet Movie Database
• Jabberwocky at Allmovie

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