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Blood of a Poet

Directed by Jean Cocteau

Toby Dammit

Directed by Federico Fellini
Screening on Film
  • Blood of a Poet (Le sang d'un poete)

    Directed by Jean Cocteau.
    With Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac.
    France, 1930, 35mm, black & white, 58 min.
    French with English subtitles.

In his first foray into film, artist and poet Jean Cocteau created this vivid and highly personal portrait of “the poet’s inner self,” filled with signature images of beauty, suffering, and renewal. While composed in four distinct episodes, the action of the film ostensibly takes place in the brief moment between the collapse of a chimney and its hitting the ground.

  • Toby Dammit

    Directed by Federico Fellini.
    With Terence Stamp, Slavo Randone, Antonio Pietrosi.
    Italy/France, 1967, 35mm, color, 41 min.

The final episode in a compendium of Edgar Allen Poe stories entitled Histoires extraordinaires (Spirits of the Dead), Fellini’s Toby Dammit loosely adapts Poe’s macabre tale and transforms it into the story of a burnt-out British actor who arrives in Rome to star in the first Catholic Western.

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