Picnic with Weissmann

Picnic with Weissmann (German: Picknick mit Weissman) is a 1968 Austrian animated short film by Jan Švankmajer.

It is one of many animate objects placed on a grassy field surrounded by trees, including three chairs (two wicker, one wooden), a double-drawered desk where the chairs play cards, and a lounge on where a suit of clothes crosses its legs and reclines between two bowls, one empty and the other full of prunes.

The spade investigates the balloon before tossing it out of the hole, where it lands on the phonograph's needle, puncturing it.

The phonograph casts the deflated balloon aside and allows the record to roll back to its cover.

As the sun begins setting, the chairs are seen marching to the top of a large hill of stones.

After the tripod extends its legs, the camera takes a series of pictures of the suit, the chairs, the lounge, the desk, the phonograph, and the wardrobe in various combinations of "family photographs".

A man in white long underwear, bound and gagged, falls out of the wardrobe and into the grave, whereupon the spade begins piling dirt on top of him.