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The History of Surrealist Film documentary (2005)

Traces Surrealism's move from painting into film, from Un Chien Andalou through the movement's key directors and techniques. Covers how Surrealist filmmakers used dream logic and shock imagery to break narrative convention.

Frederic Obrien · 60 min · Intermediate · HIS · Film History · 2018

What you take away

Can identify Surrealist techniques, like dream logic and non-sequitur editing, in later art-house cinema.

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