Adventures in Surrealism
Short Films
Screening on Film
This quartet of classic Surrealist films includes American expatriate artist Man Ray’s elliptical adaptation of a poem by Robert Desnos, Dadaist Hans Richter’s surreal comedy featuring flying derby hats and self-firing pistols, René Clair’s delightfully uncanny restaging of the chase-film genre with a runaway hearse, and Luis Buñuel’s shocking yet celebrated collaboration with painter Salvador Dalí.
PROGRAM
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L'etoile de mer (The Star of the Sea)
Directed by Man Ray.
France, 1928, black & white, silent, 18 min. -
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk)
Directed by Hans Richter.
Germany, 1927, black & white, silent, 8 min. -
Entr'acte
Directed by René Clair.
France, 1924, black & white, silent, 23 min. -
Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
France, 1928, black & white, silent, 28 min.