465 Ratings

A Game with Stones

Spiel mit Steinen

Austria, 1965

Animation, Short

Synopsis

In this early stop-motion film by Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer, a device consisting of a clock, a pendulum, a faucet and a bucket enacts a series of events whenever the clock chimes.

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A Game with Stones Directed by Jan Švankmajer

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Cast & Crew

Jan Švankmajer Production Design, Editing, Animation, Screenplay & 1 more

Jan Švankmajer Production Design, Editing, Animation, Screenplay, Director
A. Hans Puluj Cinematography and Producer

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What are people saying?

PolarisDiB's rating of the film A Game with Stones
PolarisDiB

One of the best aspects about the stop motion animation stylizations of guys like Svankmajer and the Quay brothers are how everyday materials become literally animated into living things. One can animate with anything, and here he uses stones as if it were putty, playing with them like a God can shape water. The best part is when the stones become stand-ins for bones.
February 10, 2010 07:22
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Ryan Estabrooks's rating of the film A Game with Stones
Ryan Estabrooks

Awesome short film! Very creative, very visual. It looks like it took a long time to make this one, it is very intricate with some of it's images. Loved it!
October 12, 2009 17:53
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Adam Whybray's rating of the film A Game with Stones
Adam Whybray

3.7 stars. The film is at its most affecting and disturbing when it does not make recourse to anthropomorphism but instead reveals the vitalist impulses inherent in the stones. I especially like the erotic frottage since it mostly avoid obvious phallic or yonic imagery! I'm pretty sure the ending with the bust bucket spasmodically jerking once made me cry. Nice hard Eisensteinian editing too!
February 26, 2018 11:18
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CarlosEsquives's rating of the film A Game with Stones
CarlosEsquives

Svankmajer secuencia tras secuencia hace una coreografía cada vez más compleja y surrealista. Esta vez la música es reemplazada por un ruido sinfónico.
April 02, 2014 02:44
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FISCHER's rating of the film A Game with Stones
FISCHER

D'une évidente originalité ! www.cinefiches.com
July 18, 2017 14:34
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Chichago_'s rating of the film A Game with Stones
Chichago_

Very entertaining.
December 28, 2014 18:33
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B o g d a n's rating of the film A Game with Stones
B o g d a n

qt
July 28, 2016 08:01
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Thatree Changlek's rating of the film A Game with Stones
Thatree Changlek

พยายามตามดูหนังของจานให้ครบทุกเรื่อง ^^ love too
April 15, 2010 16:48
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