A homage with a doll's head
The Quay brothers met Švankmajer's films in 1983 and made a short in his honour the next year, with his name in the title.
In Dimensions of Dialogue, heads made of food and tools, then of clay, chew each other up and remake each other. It was finished in 1982 and won the short film prize in Berlin in 1983.
Stephen and Timothy Quay, American twins working in London, saw Švankmajer's work for the first time that year, when their own puppet style was already set. The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984) answers it anyway: a puppet teacher fills a doll's emptied head with objects. The Polish animator Walerian Borowczyk had shaped them more.
Named in the film's title