Jabberwocky, or Hubert Paglia’s Little Straw Dresses, a scene from the movie

Jabberwocky

Žvahlav

Director

Jan Švankmajer

Country

Czechoslovakia

Year

1971

Length

12 min

Cast

fiction, colour

Švankmajer’s Jabberwocky, inspired by a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.

The film champions the spirit of childhood, of play and disorder, against “growing up”.