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Tiistai 10.11.2026

Frozen Nights kilpasarja 2: SUBZERO (EN)

🕐klo 15.30
Ikäsuositus: +12
Kesto: 50 minuuttia
📍Paikka: Elokuvateatteri Studio, kulttuuritalo Valve, Hallituskatu 7, 90100 Oulu

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Keskiviikko 11.11.2026

ALICE (Něco z Alenky, 1989, 86 min) 
with introduction by Pavel Bednarik (EN)

🕐klo 13.30–15.30
Ikäsuositus: +12
📍Paikka: Elokuvateatteri Studio, Hallituskatu 7, 90100 Oulu

Jan Švankmajer’s first feature film. Alice is a dark and unsettling adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, which sets the entire Wonderland within a sort of deranged cellar complex. There, ordinary everyday objects, rubbish and even parts of dead animals take on a magical and living quality. So let yourself be drawn into a dreamlike world where a woollen sock and a set of dentures can become a caterpillar, and where jam jars contain not only jam but also drawing pins. Just don’t forget to close your eyes, otherwise you won’t see a thing.

Frozen Nights kilpasarja 3: AVALANCHE (EN)

🕐klo 17.00
Ikäsuositus: +15
Kesto: 45 minuuttia
📍Elokuvateatteri Studio, kulttuuritalo Valve, Hallituskatu 7, 90100 Oulu

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Torstai 12.11.2026

Jan Švankmajer Retrospective
with introduction by Pavel Bednarik (EN)

🕐klo 18.00
Ikäsuositus: +12
Kesto: 90 minuuttia
📍Elokuvateatteri Studio, kulttuuritalo Valve, Hallituskatu 7, 90100 Oulu

Short film selection covering different artistic styles and approaches of Švankmajer’s work. The whole selection curated by Pavel Bednařík, will be introduced with a short lecture about the work of Jan Švankmajer.

1965 – A Game with Stones (Hra s kameny, 7 min)
Every hour on the hour, the wall clock shoots out stones that form mosaics and patterns. Each time, the stones are larger, more colourful and the resulting mosaic more artistic. Eventually, however, the mass of stones becomes so great that it
destroys the clock’s delicate mechanism.

1966 – Punch and Judy (Rakvičkárna, 10 min)
One of Jan Švankmajer’s earliest auteur films reflects his fascination with old fairground booths and puppet theatre, known in England as Punch and Judy.
Puppets beat each other over the head with mallets, hammer themselves into a coffin and, in short, fight to the last scrap of wood and splinter over a live guinea pig that Kašpar is rearing – the only one to survive this fierce battle. The score was composed by Zdeněk Liška.

1967 – Historia Naturae (9 min)
One of Jan Švankmajer’s earliest animated films introduces props that would become characteristic of his later work: animated museum exhibits, feathers, bones and meat, and so on. All of this comes to life in a thrilling dance that unfolds across eight short ‘encyclopaedic’ chapters.

1968 – The Garden (Zahrada, 16 min)
Director Jan Švankmajer’s grotesque parable is based on Ivan Kraus’s short story The Living Hedge. With playful exaggeration, it tells the story of a man who shows an old acquaintance his villa and garden, surrounded by a hedge – a literally ‘living’ one, as it consists not of bushes but of people about whom the villa’s owner knows a thing or two…

1971 – Jabberwocky (Žvahlav aneb Šatičky slaměného Huberta, 14 min)
A magic wardrobe, a sailor’s outfit, a cat and doll soup. Imaginative games from the world of toys, rich in interpretative possibilities, which come to life even without adults present.

1982 – Dimensions of dialogue (Možnosti dialogu, 12 min)
Interpersonal communication has its pitfalls. Three animated vignettes on a single theme, presented by the master of surrealism, Jan Švankmajer. As in his trick design work Svankmajer and his animator Bedřich Glaser are using clay animation, which is crucial for his later short films.

1992 – Food (Jídlo, 17 min)
In the animated film Food, Jan Švankmajer uses his characteristic fantastical visual style to take an ironic look at humanity’s eternal gluttony and the transience of life. In this 1992 film, the artist and director combines animation with live actors, as he does in his other films.
 

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Perjantai 13.11.2026

Frozen Nights kilpasarja 1: BLIZZARD (EN)

🕐klo 09.00
Ikäsuositus: +7
Kesto: 45 minuuttia
📍Paikka: Pakkalan sali, keskustakirjasto Saari 4. krs, Kaarlenväylä 3, 90100 Oulu

Lastenkulttuurikeskus Kotilon kesän 2026 mestarikurssin elokuvat / Noita (Witch) ja Merenneito purnukassa 

🕐klo 16.00
Ikäsuositus: +7
Kesto: 45 minuuttia
📍Elokuvateatteri Studio, kulttuuritalo Valve, Hallituskatu 7, 90100 Oulu

Frozen Nights Summer Masterclass pidettiin kesällä 2026. Haluatko oppia lentämään? -kurssin aiheena oli ihmisanimaatiot eli piksillaatiot. Nuoria ohjasi animaatiotaiteilija Malakias. Näytöksessä nähdään mestarikurssilla valmistuneet kolme elokuvaa: Mies kenties, Definitely Not Ghostbusters ja Epäillyttävä kirja. Lisäksi nähdään Malakiaksen elokuvat Noita ja Merenneito purnukassa.