The evocative short film May was integrated into Burian's avant-garde stage dramatization of Macha's 19th Century Romantic poem. It is a classic of Surrealist filmmaking in which disembodied hands, lips, arms, shot close-up, come to represent other, erotic body parts. In Burlesque, the young journalist and film critic Kucera concocted a playful mixture of Surrealist trick shots and newsreel material to express his pacifist sentiments through hidden poetic associations. Hands on Tuesday has a stellar cast of hands, caught in the personal acts of a day: playing, loving, communicating, resting. Extremely inventive scenarios involving the pages of cheap detective novels, under-the-table cafe seductions, etc., distinguish this "amateur" film. The course of spring passion and its brutal consummation is telegraphed with great style and fluency, using the lexicon of avant-garde iconography, in The Atom of Eternity. Magnified sexual metaphors take this "art" film into the realm of self-parody. Autumn is a brilliant, understated, Vigo-like evocation of a couple on a city streetcar recalling their earlier romance in lyrical, pastoral flashbacks.