Initial release 1989 Screenplay Jan Švankmajer Cinematography Svatopluk Malý | Director Jan Švankmajer Producer Jaromír Kallista Editor Marie Zemanová | |
 | ||
Similar The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia, A Game with Stones, Down to the Cellar, Picnic with Weissmann, Dimensions of Dialogue | ||
Meat love
Meat Love is a 1989 Czechoslovak animated short film directed and animated by Jan Švankmajer. It appears as a commercial in Švankmajer's feature-length film Little Otik. It has also been shown on MTV.
Contents
uk usa western germany meat love fleischliche liebe 1989
Plot
A knife chops two slices off a chunk of fresh meat. The first slice, using a nearby spoon as a hand mirror, admires itself. Similar admiration is expressed by the second slice, which slaps the first slice on its 'rear', causing it to cry out and retreat coyly behind a tea-towel. The second slice switches on the radio, and persuades its companion to dance 'cheek to cheek' to the sound of an old 1920s recording. One slice jumps into a plate of flour and teasingly 'splashes' the other. Soon, the two slices are writhing ecstatically in the flour. Their passion is short-lived, however, as almost immediately afterwards they are skewered and fried.