PT Journal AU Leuchter, T TI Encountering the Real SO Iluminace PY 2001 BP 23 EP 34 VL 13 IS 1 WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-200101-0002.php DE Possibilities of Dialogue 1982; symbol in film; short film; dialogues; film aesthetics; film semiotics SN 0862397X AB An analysis of Jan Svankmajer's 1982 short film The Possibilities of Dialogue, consisting of three parts: the Substantive Dialogue, the Passionate Dialogue and the Exhaustive Dialogue. The theoretical interpretation of the film is based on the ideas of two authors. They are Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan. The Absence of Dialogue in Film, The Subject and The Real. ER