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Ray Durgnat, the writer and film critic, shows the influence of the cinema on the Surrealists, and introduces extracts from some of the most important surrealist films. As early as World War I, Bre...ton and Vache were visiting cinemas at random. They would enter while the film was running, stay a short while and leave. For a few minutes each film was marvellous, incomprehensible. The surrealist also found commerical film which seemed to share their own artistic vision. By 1924 Francis Picabia and Rene Clair had made a film together with their fellow Dadaists, and by 1928 Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali had made the first exemplary surrealist film. Ray Durgnat traces the various paths of surrealism in film through to its concern with lived reality and the more extraordinary aspects of science. The programme contains extracts from the following films: 1. Un Chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Luis 3unuel) - 2 extracts; 2. L'Atlante-. (Rene Clair); 3. King Kong (Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Cooper); 4. Entr'acte (Francis Picabia and Rene Clair); 5. La Coquille et le Clergyman (Germaine Dulac); 6. Le Sang d'un Poete (Jean Cocteau); 7. Los Hurdes - Land Without Bread (Luis Bunueal); 8. Les Oursins (Jean Painleve).
Ray Durgnat, the writer and film critic, shows the influence of the cinema on the Surrealists, and introduces extracts from some of the most important surrealist films. As early as World War I, Bre...ton and Vache were visiting cinemas at random. They would enter while the film was running, stay a short while and leave. For a few minutes each film was marvellous, incomprehensible. The surrealist also found commerical film which seemed to share their own artistic vision. By 1924 Francis Picabia and Rene Clair had made a film together with their fellow Dadaists, and by 1928 Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali had made the first exemplary surrealist film. Ray Durgnat traces the various paths of surrealism in film through to its concern with lived reality and the more extraordinary aspects of science. The programme contains extracts from the following films: 1. Un Chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Luis 3unuel) - 2 extracts; 2. L'Atlante-. (Rene Clair); 3. King Kong (Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Cooper); 4. Entr'acte (Francis Picabia and Rene Clair); 5. La Coquille et le Clergyman (Germaine Dulac); 6. Le Sang d'un Poete (Jean Cocteau); 7. Los Hurdes - Land Without Bread (Luis Bunueal); 8. Les Oursins (Jean Painleve).
| Module code and title: | A351, Modern art from 1848 to the present: styles and social implications |
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| Item code: | A351; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 25-08-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:26 |
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| Producer: | Paul Kafno |
| Contributor: | Ray Durgnat |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | King Kong; La Coquille et le Clergyman; L'Atlante; Un Chien Andalou |
| Footage description: | Opening sequence from 'Un Chien Andalou' Durgnat introduces the programme which will examine links between surrealism and film. Stills from various films. A piece from the film 'L'Atlante' is shown. An extract from 'King Kong'. Clips from a Dadaist film 'Entr'acte' are shown. Shots from an avowed Surrealist film 'La Coquille et le Clergyman'. More shots of 'Un Chien Andalou', the exemplary Surrealist film. This is compared with a clip from a film mistaken for a Surrealist film 'Le Sang d'un poete'. A more directly political film is shown, Bunuel's 'Las Hurdos'. Durgnat looks at examples of possible surrealist influence in more recent films. Extracts from a film on the sea-urchin are also shown. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72016 |
| Production number: | 00525_3209 |
| Videofinder number: | 3337 |
| Available to public: | no |
