Conspirators of Pleasure

Conspirators of Pleasure (Spiklenci slasti, 1996) — watch this Czech surrealist comedy online on iFILM. Jan Švankmajer's film runs 83 minutes and contains almost no dialogue. Six Prague residents pursue elaborate secret rituals that make complete sense to them.

A newsstand owner builds a chicken suit. An investigator constructs devices from papier-mâché. The mail carrier rolls bread into tiny balls and inhales them. None of them know about each other, but Švankmajer quietly connects their obsessions into one system. Funny and unsettling in roughly equal measure — a film for viewers who find Buñuel too straightforward. Stream Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) online on iFILM.