L'âge d'or

Live Piano Accompaniment Composed and Performed by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film

Directed by Luis Buñuel.
With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst.
France, 1930, 35mm, black & white, silent, 63 min.

Painter, theoretician, and Zurich dadaist Hans Richter’s surreal comedy featuring flying derby hats and self-firing pistols is paired here with two of surrealism’s most famous cinematic realizations: René Clair’s delightfully uncanny restaging of the chase-film genre with a runaway hearse and Buñuel’s ultimate take on religion and l’amour fou.

PRECEDED BY

Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk)

Directed by Hans Richter.
With Hans Richter, Paul Hindesmith, Darius Milhaud.
Germany, 1928, 16mm, black & white, silent, 6 min.
Entr'acte

Directed by René Clair.
With Jean Borlin, Inge Fries, Francis Picabia.
France, 1924, 16mm, black & white, silent, 22 min.