Does anyone have any idea how Svankmajer animated the meat? How much time do you think these sequences took to complete? I had never seen such animation before and was in awe every time the meat appeared moving around to the sound of music.
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a.) probably similar to the way he animates everything else in his other films. In "Meat Love" you can actually see the strings attached to the meat (which is still stop-motion animated), but I haven't noticed any in this film except for the intentionally visible strings on the marionette meat.
b.)Probably a really long time.
c.) You should probably check out his other work, as his incredible animation is on display in all of his films. In particular, make sure you see his short films (26 in all). "Dimensions of Dialogue" (1982) is an especially important film, but it's hard for me to recommend just a few since they are all so amazing. The moving meat and food has been a motif in his work for a long time, going back at least to "A Quiet Week in the House" which features a severed tongue licking some plates clean in one scene, though you could go back to "Historia Naturae, Suita" (1967) for his first use of animating animal tissues (mounted/stuffed animals, skeletons, etc.) Once again, Dimensions of Dialogue has some of the most sophisticated and wowing use of such materials.
I would highly recommend getting the BFI 3-disc collection of all his short films. It's region 2, but well worth getting a non-regional player because of how great all the material is. If that fails, you can always check out the Kino collections available in the U.S., but they are neither comprehensive nor the best presentation (somewhat murkier quality, plus no subtitles for the various bits of significant text that appear in the films with no human speech - which is most of them).