This Unnameable Little Broom

Since the mid-1960s, the Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer has been making very strange stop-motion films that simply defy anyone explaining them. Instead, it's best to see his often weird and occasionally very funny films for yourself. You may dislike them, you might not...but it almost certainly will mean your watching several of his pictures before you're sure what you think of them!

Well, it's very obvious when you watch some of the films by Keith Griffiths and the Quay Brothers that they are fans of Svankmajer's work. Several of their films look almost exactly like Svankmajer shorts, though for me they lack the same level of weirdness and artistry of the originals. Here in "This Unnameable Little Broom" they make a Svankmajer-like film....but one which seems much more incomprehensible. It's supposedly some re-imagining of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" (a story written thousands of years ago that almost no one has actually read apart from archaeologists and literature majors)...but I found the story pretty much non-existent. And, for me, while I respect all the work they did to do this stop-motion picture, it just isn't as good as watching Svankmajer's own films.