Movies: Surrealism

There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand racial difference. At first, the other or "primitive" was the opposite of the bourgeois subject. In thi...

A woman living in a strange place goes on a trip to a mysterious elevator at the edge of it....

A video CD by Japanese visual artist, musician, and game developer Osamu Sato....

Sequence digitally photographed and animated by Pamela Turner in 2009 from Beckett's original drawings; these untitled images may have been intended for use in Life in the Atom. Also included, Every Other, is a unique version of an animated "exquisit...

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside of his sphere of friends, being a collection of early experiments and directions. While lacking the s...

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a man and woman engaged in surreal, erotic contortions. Their bodies are in a constant state of metamor...

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"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California. [The song] "Sweeping the Clouds Away" is sung by Charles "Buddy" Rodgers, who was Mary Pickford's husban...

The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion....

A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly....

A man tries to train a camera....

A man tries to escape a camera....

One of the early animation works of Benjamin Rabier, a former designer of Epinal images who produced elegant illustrated editions of La Fontaine's fables and created the trademark image of 'La Vache qui rit'....