Richard Wells
@slipperyjack.bsky.social
👁️ Occasional Graphic Designer for telly & film
🔥 I also make Spooky Lino Prints that you can buy if you want
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
🔥 I also make Spooky Lino Prints that you can buy if you want
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
Yeah, his more recent work has moved away from this vibe, which is fair enough, but this is the good stuff...
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Yeah, his more recent work has moved away from this vibe, which is fair enough, but this is the good stuff...
Ah, that's good to hear..!
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Ah, that's good to hear..!
Happy to hear, thank you..!
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy to hear, thank you..!
Ah cool, great timing, glad you enjoyed! The puppets were part of a big Svankmajer retrospective last year just outside Prague, but I couldn't make it 😓...
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Ah cool, great timing, glad you enjoyed! The puppets were part of a big Svankmajer retrospective last year just outside Prague, but I couldn't make it 😓...
Oh wow, would've loved to have seen that..!
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Oh wow, would've loved to have seen that..!
Guessing they're not on Blue sky...
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Guessing they're not on Blue sky...
Utterly upsetting that production was partially based in Bilston (a pal worked on it) - literally a 5 minute drive from home. I was working away in Wales at the time 🥲...
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Utterly upsetting that production was partially based in Bilston (a pal worked on it) - literally a 5 minute drive from home. I was working away in Wales at the time 🥲...
Capped off the trip with:
bsky.app/profile/slip...
bsky.app/profile/slip...
Morning pilgrimage to Jan Švankmajer & Eva Švankmajerová's house before the flight home...
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Capped off the trip with:
bsky.app/profile/slip...
bsky.app/profile/slip...
I did consider recreating it before my trip..!
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I did consider recreating it before my trip..!
Yes! There are a few other shots from the same area that I missed off, it was a thrill to imagine Švankmajer and his puppets hanging around...
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Yes! There are a few other shots from the same area that I missed off, it was a thrill to imagine Švankmajer and his puppets hanging around...
The fact that it was so tricky to find made the discovery all the more thrilling..!
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The fact that it was so tricky to find made the discovery all the more thrilling..!
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about it till we randomly walked past it..!
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about it till we randomly walked past it..!
I want to take a freeze frame and recreate it..!
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I want to take a freeze frame and recreate it..!
During my location wandering I spotted this poster for a puppet theatre production of FAUST! Very sadly, I was three months too late...
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
During my location wandering I spotted this poster for a puppet theatre production of FAUST! Very sadly, I was three months too late...
I decided not to bother asking the trendy young hotel staff if they knew if a cult Surrealist filmmaker shot there 30 years ago...
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I decided not to bother asking the trendy young hotel staff if they knew if a cult Surrealist filmmaker shot there 30 years ago...
Maybe, looked like there were a lot of those maps blowing around during filming...
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Maybe, looked like there were a lot of those maps blowing around during filming...
Bit of both. There's a handy (but incomplete) Czech website of film locations. You should watch the film, there's an HD transfer on YouTube..!
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Bit of both. There's a handy (but incomplete) Czech website of film locations. You should watch the film, there's an HD transfer on YouTube..!
After many puppet hijinks, Faust finally flees the play and is immediately run over back on U Dobřenských. RIP. The homeless man claims a new severed leg and flees the scene. THE END...
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
After many puppet hijinks, Faust finally flees the play and is immediately run over back on U Dobřenských. RIP. The homeless man claims a new severed leg and flees the scene. THE END...
A hungry dog chases the homeless man onto Vyšehrad Railway Bridge, where he is forced to dump his scavenged severed leg into the Vltava river...
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A hungry dog chases the homeless man onto Vyšehrad Railway Bridge, where he is forced to dump his scavenged severed leg into the Vltava river...