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Surrealist Shorts

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

  • L'etoile de mer (AKA The Star of the Sea)

    Directed by Man Ray.
    France, 1928, 16mm, black & white, silent, 18 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • Ghosts Before Breakfast ( Vormittagsspuk)

    Directed by Hans Richter.
    Germany, 1927, 16mm, black & white, silent, 8 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • Entr'acte

    Directed by René Clair.
    France, 1924, 16mm, black & white, silent, 23 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • Un chien andalou (AKA An Andalusian Dog)

    Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
    France, 1928, 35mm, black & white, 28 min.
    Print source: HFA

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