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Destino (2003)

July 11, 2016 By Surrealism.tv Leave a Comment

To a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover’s face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game. From the melting clocks and hourglass sand, to the figure rendered in strips, to the character covered in eyeballs, the style and themes of Dalí are clearly recognizable throughout.

– Written by Jon Reeves

 

The film tells the story of Chronos, the personification of time and the inability to realize his desire to love for a mortal. The scenes blend a series of surreal paintings of Dali with dancing and metamorphosis. The target production began in 1945, 58 years before its completion and was a collaboration between Walt Disney and the Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Destiny was produced by Dali and John Hench for 8 months between 1945 and 1946. Dali, at the time, Hench described as a “ghostly figure” who knew better than Dali or the secrets of the Disney film. For some time, the project remained a secret. The work of painter Salvador Dali was to prepare a six-minute sequence combining animation with live dancers and special effects for a movie in the same format of “Fantasia.” Dali in the studio working on The Disney characters are fighting against time, the giant sundial that emerges from the great stone face of Jupiter and that determines the fate of all human novels. Dalí and Hench were creating a new animation technique, the cinematic equivalent of “paranoid critique” of Dali. Method inspired by the work of Freud on the subconscious and the inclusion of hidden and double images. Dalí said: “Entertainment highlights the art, its possibilities are endless.” The plot of the film was described by. Dalí as “A magical display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time.” Walt Disney said it was “A simple story about a young girl in search of true love.”

Filed Under: Surrealism Tagged With: Animation

The Taste of Tea (2004)

July 10, 2016 By Surrealism.tv Leave a Comment

The Haruno family makes its way in a small town in rural Japan. Yoshiko (Satomi Tezuka) is an artist and her husband, Nobuo (Tomokazu Miura), is a hypnotist. Their son, Hajime (Takahiro Sato), has fallen in love with a girl at school, while his sister, Sachiko (Maya Banno), is seeing bizarre visions, usually her own gigantic doppelganger following her through town, a specter she’s convinced will go away if only she can pull off a perfect backflip.

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Filed Under: Humor

Eraserhead (1977)

July 9, 2016 By Surrealism.tv Leave a Comment

This surreal nightmare examines male paranoia. Our hero and title character, Henry, faces a number of horrifying obstacles in meeting someone of the opposite sex, meeting her parents, and procreating. Produced during a one-and-a-half-year period while director David Lynch was a student at the American Film Institute, the film launched him as a major new talent admired by cinephiles and filmmakers all over the world. It stands today as a milestone in personal, independent filmmaking.

– Rotten Tomatoes

 

Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist body horror film written and directed by filmmaker David Lynch. Shot in black-and-white, Eraserhead is Lynch’s first feature-length film, coming after several short works. The film was produced with the assistance of the American Film Institute (AFI) during the director’s time studying there. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of Henry Spencer (Nance), who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape. Throughout the film, Spencer experiences dreams or hallucinations, featuring his child and the Lady in the Radiator (Near).

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Initially opening to small audiences and little interest, Eraserhead gained popularity over several long runs as a midnight movie. Since its release, the film has earned positive reviews. The surrealist imagery and sexual undercurrents have been seen as key thematic elements, and the intricate sound design as its technical highlight. Thematic analysis of the film has also highlighted these issues and has elaborated on Spencer’s fatalism and inactivity. In 2004, the film was preserved in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

– (Wikipedia)

Filed Under: Experimental, Horror Tagged With: Body Horror, Dark, Surrealist

Ben Lukas Boysen – Keep Watch

July 8, 2016 By Surrealism.tv Leave a Comment

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Here’s what director Susie Sie had to say about the #selftitledpremiere above, followed by selections from Boysen’s two full-lengths…

Since discovering his music a few years ago, I’ve follow Ben Lukas Boysen’s work full of admiration. I remember that I wanted to talk to him at the OFFF conference when he stood right next to me, but unfortunately I did not have the courage.
So it was a big surprise when Erased Tapes came to me right after my talk at Faux Images and introduced me to Ben for a possible collaboration. Ben showed me his wonderful album Spells and I immediately fell in love with the track “Keep Watch.” I was searching for images fitting its mood and wanted to create visuals which slowly and constantly change their shape,
showing depths and emotionality—something that starts from black, tells a story, and ends in white.

For me it was a big honor to produce this music video for him.

Via Self-Titled

Filed Under: Abstract

Cymatics (2013)

July 8, 2016 By Surrealism.tv Leave a Comment

This gorgeous video is much abstract eye-candy and video.

The amazing short film is by the uber-talented Susi Sie.

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Filed Under: Abstract

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