Darkness, Light, Darkness
(1990)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 161 votes
Year: 1990
Runtime: 8 мин
Country: Czechoslovakia
Director: Jan Švankmajer
Plot
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
With the flick of a switch, Jan Svankmajer illuminates a tiny, two-door room. As an arm and set of eyes enter the place, after a while, other body parts decide to take a look at the cramped apartment, one by one. Now, the baffled anatomical pieces struggle to find purpose and meaning in life, inadvertently putting together something magnificent. Birth and death are instances of life's never-ending circle. Who can grasp the unfathomable depths of creation?