Svankmajer has created the film Little Otik from an old folk tale from his past. Little Otik uses the combination of animation and real time, which I feel shows the link between the film and the real world, therefore creating a surreal world to reflect on the real world.
I feel the film shows the use of memory and dreams; the memory of Svankmajer being told the folk tale as a young child and the dreams that the family within the film have to have a child. This is also very similar to one of his other films Alice, which is a production of another folk tale using both animation and moving image.
Both these films seem to have taken more of a dark look at both of these folk tales, with the use of dark settings, dark sounding background music and the animation being used to portray dark actions.
