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LIGHTSTRUCK screens Jan Švankmajer's complete short films in artist-supervised remasters
LIGHTSTRUCK's The Alchemical Furnace of Jan Švankmajer brings his complete short-film output to 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles. Curators Zena Grey and Mark Toscano organised the retrospective with Athanor, using remasters supervised by Švankmajer. The organisers describe it as the first complete presentation of his shorts in Los Angeles.
The four programmes fall on 1, 22 and 29 October and 12 November 2026, with separate tickets. The remaining October dates include The Last Trick and Food on 22 October, then Dimensions of Dialogue, Meat Love and Virile Games on 29 October. Each evening mixes familiar works with less-seen films, offering a chance to study the filmmaker's combinations of stop-motion objects, puppetry, collage, editing and sound in restored exhibition copies.
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