Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.
Direction
Švankmajer's tactile stop-motion sensibility in live action.
Production
The fence: actual humans, actual stillness, actual nightmare.
Writing
Based on Ivan Kraus—everyday dialogue, cosmic dread.
Director
Jan Švankmajer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Švankmajer made this during the Prague Spring's brief thaw—bureaucratic absurdity resonated deeply in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia.
The 'fence' actors were reportedly told to meditate on emptiness; several fell asleep mid-take.
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