Man Ray Films

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Part of the History of the Avant-Garde series. Man Ray is now recognised as one of the influential artists of the 20th century. He made just 4 films which are featured here: the hypnotic and playful Le Retour a la raison, the abstract, dadaist cinepoem Emak Bakla, L'Etoile de Mer based on a poem by Robert Desnos, and the surrealist Les Mysteres du Chateau du De. Also contains 11 short autobiographical films (some of which are home movie style and star Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller among them), and offers a unique and intimate portrait of an extraordinary life and a fascinating personality.

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Article - "Cinema and Surrealism" by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Tuesday 29th May 2007

Surrealism is now thought of mainly as an art movement, one of the many styles that succeeded each other with bewildering rapidity in the early 20th century. There was Cubism, and Fauvism, and Suprematism, and Futurism, and Dada, and near the end there was Surrealism...  View article in full

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