Movies: Surrealism

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...

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

A young filmmaker looking for production assistance....

A troubled couple copes with a malfunctioning pregnancy test....

She turned a shoe into a hat or a chop into a headdress: fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) loved the surreal and the color pink. She came from Rome and managed to make a name for herself as a fashion designer in Paris in the 1930s with h...

A man is desperate to make something out of nothing and so are the creators of this 42-minute, nearly improvised feature that deals with finding salvation in others, rather than oneself, in the midst of a world falling apart. When the Kafkaesque rout...

In 1924 California’s Tribune-American newspaper ran a competition for its readers to write in with their most unusual dreams and the winning entry was made into a short film. This is Mrs L.L. Nicholson from Oakland’s dream of losing her baby, rowing ...

Spik-Bebis (Nail-baby) lives in a warehouse. He starts the day by hitting a nail into his head. Shot entirely in Super-8, this live action film features “fast cars, fancy dinners and unusual hairdos”....

The whole universe of characters Maximov, showing in this case the skills and talents they possess in their snouts....

A dog taking a poo on the sidewalk leads to an unprecedented chain of events....

Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood....

A man at the feet of a seated woman, who looks like a big doll, licking her whole body....

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'....

The Mexican Gelsen Gas side by side with Alexandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis, El Topo, The Holy Mountain and others) appeared as a theater director, artist and poet, had an idea about staging haiku's that would reflect the sexually-charged and politica...

When a mysterious Salesman offers him a single stick of butter, Bob’s world flips upside-down. Pulled into a surreal underground of strange feasts and absurd performances, he soon learns that in this world, everything really is better with a little b...

Everything changes in P's haunting life when he comes across a peculiar being dancing in the middle of a forest....