From surrealist master JAN SVANKMAJER comes CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE,  a journey into the extremes of erotic fetishism and obsessions of the human heart.

Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes which they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls which she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate himself. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.

“[Jan Svankmajer’s] films ... all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life.” – Terry Gilliam