Preceded by short: Food (Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic/U.K., 1993): A series of delicious vignettes-grey-suited men as human vending machines, a couple at dinner devouring the restaurant, and a tour of a cannibalistic banquet. (14 mins, 35mm, Color, From Zeitgeist) -----------------------------------Svankmajer's Faust (movingly incarnated by one of Czech Republic's finest actors, Petr Cepek) is an inquisitive Everyman who, upon exiting a Prague subway station, is handed a map that draws him to his doom. With breathtaking rapidity Faust's journey takes him to the tops of mountains, drops him in the middle of lakes, and sends him out onto the unsuspecting streets of Prague-peopled with shape-changing demons and puppet-versions of Goethe's characters. A tour-de-force, alternately hilarious and shocking.