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Surrealist films include Un chien andalou and L'Âge d'Or by Luis Buñuel and Dalí; Buñuel went on to direct many more films, with varying degrees of Surrealist influence. Notable for Surrealism amongst Buñuel's later films are Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, El ángel exterminador, and Belle de jour.

Films by the Surrealist movement

Jan Bucquoy's film Camping Cosmos (1996), André Delvaux (working in the tradition of magic realism) with his Un Soir, un Train (1968), and Marcel Mariën's controversial film L'imitation du cinéma (1959), are representatives of the Belgian Surrealist school in cinema.

Antonin Artaud, Philippe Soupault, and Robert Desnos wrote screenplays for Surrealistic films. Salvador Dalí designed a dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound (1945). Destino (1946) was a collaborative project between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney. It was left unfinished because of a lack of projected profit.

There is a strong Surrealist influence present in Alain Resnais's 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad.

Surrealist and film theorist Robert Benayoun has written books on Tex Avery, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers.

Modern films considered surrealist

The animated films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata began to have broad international influence in the 1970s. Miyazaki's themes of magical terrains and nature vs. man have influenced new Pop Surrealist fine artists around the world. Also, experimental works by the anime production company Gainax tend to contain surreal elements, notably Hideki Anno's movie, The End of Evangelion [citation needed]. Angel's Egg, produced by Mamoru Oshii and artist Yoshitaka Amano, is perhaps the most notable example of surrealist influence in anime.

Tex Avery's cartoons originated on film in the 1930s and 1940s, but millions more know his famous characters from Saturday morning cartoons replayed during the 1970s: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. Another Looney Tunes animator, Robert Clampett, was renowned for his surreal style in both story and visuals. Especially notable are The Great Piggy Bank Robbery and Porky in Wackyland. The Chicago Surrealist Group, in particular, has done a great deal of work on the Surrealist nature of the Looney Tunes cartoons.

More recently, award winning filmmakers at Peter Dizozza's International Surrealist Film Festival have included Amy Greenfield's Wildfire (Eclipse Productions), a new film by Matthew Gray Gubler entitled The Cactus that Looked Like a Man, Lauren Hartman's PHANT, and Susan Ingraham's GoescarGo.

Later directors who made Surrealistic films

References

  1. ^ Liner, Elaine (2002-06-13). "Swingers: Barbette soars to greatness with the tragic tale of a trapeze artist". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  2. ^ "If Wojciech Has had become a painter, he would surely have been a Surrealist", wrote the Polish critic Aleksander Jackiewicz. "He would have redrawn antique objects with all their real accoutrements and juxtaposed them in unexpected ways."[This quote needs a citation]
  3. ^ http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/films/filmogac.html

Further readings

  • Le cinéma des surréalistes, ed. by Henri Béhar, Lausanne : L'age d'homme, 2004
  • Michael Richardson, Surrealism and cinema, Paperback edition, Oxford: Berg, 2006, ISBN 1845202260
  • Robert Short, The Age of Gold: Surrealist Cinema, Creation Books, 2003, ISBN 1840680598
  • Linda Williams, Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film, Paperback edition, University of California Press, 1992, ISBN 0520078969
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