Movies: Surrealism

Video art piece by Michigan artist Gio Orlando....

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An animated film based on the painting about Max Ernst of the same title, he said that a “fevervision” he had experienced when he was sick with measles as a child inspired him to compose the haunting scene that unfolds in Two Children Are Threatened ...

A metaphorical approach of the seven deadly sins in the form of a man whose body is made of drawers. One day, one of his drawers opens and he begins a journey in search of a way to fill in his emptiness. An animated short film based on Salvador Dali’...

There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand racial difference. At first, the other or "primitive" was the opposite of the bourgeois subject. In thi...

Saturated colors and X-ray imagery swirl and bounce through wide eyed and frantic characters in a play of animation techniques, video overlays and stylized trippy imagery. An original experimental animation utilizing both stop motion and digital tech...

A subject in question, in the midst of boredom, gazes to her right from a far to bring her sights upon eyes too all powerful for mortals....

This story about guilt and oblivion shows that the distinction between fact and fiction can be small....

A woman takes a light bulb on a romantic dinner, a certain skeleton has family issues, and one girl has a very peculiar appetite....

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....

This is the story of a passionate man connected with the electronic life and whose language was misunderstood into the real world. Upon the game with the remote control of the TV, a screen travel emerges into his mind. He visualizes the transformatio...

Imagine if David Lynch cast a pensioner or a mummified figure from Pompeii as the star of an experimental short film, and that's what 'Absence' comes close to....

Inspired by all of the tiny illusory moths I see out of the corner of my eyes late late at night....

In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, video and performance artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and ...

Contemplate the "anti-art" spirit of Dadaism, its nihilistic yet humorous indictment of civilization and bizarre use of unconventional media. In the sensibility of Surrealism, observe its compelling focus on the subconscious and two substyles - dream...

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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 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...

This surreal animated short depicts an impossible synchronized dive....

A short experimental film that thematizes dreams and nightmares in a surrealistic way. The basis of the movie is found in the poetry created by the two directors, so the film partly seems like stringed lyrical motifs, open to arbitrary interpretation...