After the release last year of the Quay Brothers compilation , the British Film Institute has released, a few days before its planned released date the DVD edition of the complete short films of Jan Švankmajer .

This edition (more comprehensive than the US edition by Kino Video) boasts nearly 8 hours of material (with more than 2 and a half of them extra material) in 3 DVD discs and a 56-page booklet. Among the extra features are the first film that Svankmajer worked on (Johannes Doktor Faust, 1958), excerpts from Nick Carter in Prague (1977), a French documentary (Les Chimeres des Svankmajer, 2001), an interview for Czech TV in 2001 and the homage to Jan Svankmajer by the Brothers Quay (The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, 1984) in its full length version.

Also worthy of notice (though not experimental) is the BFI's compilation Science is Fiction / The Sounds of Science: The films of Jean Painlevé .