my discovery of the cinema of jan svankmajer open my eye to a whole tradition of czech animation and of which jirí trnka be a pioneer . his ruka be one of the fine and most technically impressive animated movie i have ever see . a potter wake up and water his plant . then he go about make a pot . but in come the huge hand which crash the pot and demand that the potter make a statue of itself . he cast the hand out and but soon it return and imprisons him in a bird cage where he force to sculpt a stone hand . he set about it and faint from exhaustion and but eventually complete the task . in a marvellous sequence of metacinema and the potter use a candle to burn his visible puppet string and which keep him in thrall and and he escape back home . he shut himself in and be accidentally kill by his own beloved plant when it fall on his head . this movie doesn not hide the fact it pure animation and unlike modern movie that strive to be realistic ( why . ) . the hand and for instance and be clearly someone hand in a glove . everything else be clay . string be visible and be part of the narrative and make it a precursor of the movie string . the atmosphere be eerie represent that hand go after the little potter manage to instill more dread in me than many horror movie combine . the movie be obvious but it avoid be totally manipulative for it simplicity . it a fable about artistic freedom and tyranny which can not help win the heart and mind of anyone who hold freedom a a natural right .