Movies: Surrealism

With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons from their past to inhabit the house....

Alone in her apartment, Nemo learns to play games with her grief. She cooks; she does her makeup; she knits a sweater that never ends. Meanwhile, the destruction of the world outside looms, threatening to encroach on this inner life....

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano playing and dance with their girlfriends. As the hours pass before his eyes, Thomas contemplates the los...

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『飛画』Flying images 1989/11min...

An isolated introverted man who lives an airstream talks to himself before going on a date with a pessimistic extraverted woman and has trouble communicating his thoughts. Meanwhile, he escapes to a fantasy where he has no problem connecting with her...

"El Terror del Silencio" is in opposition to describe the intellectual or the symbolic contents as well in "Rana i moll", because the film has surreal and existential character. The ambition is to force the audience to think and associate according t...

A visualization of how dreams mush up unrelated events together to make up a single story....

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

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last moments of his journey and the struggle for the preservation of his legacy, trying to fulfill his last...

Surrealist experimental & silent short film made by film students....

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...

Cassandra discovers by accident the Bureau of Shadows, responsible for making, measuring and resizing our shadows while we are asleep, in this post-modern fairy tale....

The life and work of painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006), one of the most important artists of the portuguese surrealist movement, both in literature and the visual arts. Includes statements from the artist, his friends, and scholars of...

French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires. Short film included in the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966)....

Men and dogs move dreamily through a room. In this hostile environment, their attitudes and reactions lead to irritated moods....

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