L'etoile de mer / The Seashell and the Clergyman / Un Chien Andalou

Live Piano Accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film

This trio of classic Surrealist films includes American expatriate artist Man Ray’s elliptical adaptation of a poem by Robert Desnos, feminist filmmaker and writer Germaine Dulac’s interpretation of a text by Antonin Artaud, and Luis Buñuel’s celebrated collaboration with painter Salvador Dalí.

PROGRAM

Un Chien Andalou (Andalusian Dog)

Directed by Luis Buñuel.
With Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dalí.
France, 1929, 35mm, black & white, silent, 17 min.
L'etoile de mer

Directed by Man Ray.
With Robert Desnos, Kiki of Montparnasse.
France, 1928, 16mm, black & white, silent, 15 min.
The Seashell and the Clergyman (La coquille et le clergyman)

Directed by Germaine Dulac.
With Alix Allin.
France, 1926, 16mm, black & white, silent, 44 min.