“When inanimate objects start moving, the world becomes a very slippery, uncertain place,” said Terry Gilliam in 1997. He was interviewing one of his heroes, the Czech master of Surrealist cinema, Jan Švankmajer. With a career dating back to the mid-1960s, Švankmajer—who turns 90 this year—is revered for an oeuvre which, in Gilliam’s words, “evokes the...