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Surrealism on Film

Enjoy our season of Surrealist films by Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock and many more

Take a trip into the fantastical worlds of Surrealism with Surrealism on Film, a season of films to celebrate the centenary of the first Surrealist art manifesto.

The season opens on Sat 21 September with a double-bill of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s provocative masterpiece Un Chien Andalou and Buñuel’s follow-up L’Âge d’or, banned by the French authorities until 1981.

Film fans can enjoy an expert introduction to each film in the programme, includinga specially-recorded introduction to Czech classics Daisies and Murdering the Devil from feminist film collective Invisible Women, Fellini’s mesmerising 8½ introduced by Dr. Brittany Jones from University of St Andrews, and Dr. Ramona Fotiade from University of Glasgow introducing Return to Reason: Short Films by Man Ray.

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Wed 4 Sep

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On Fri 11 October, DCA welcomes Glasgow musicians Hoolan Ensemble to present Le Regard: An evening celebrating women in surrealist silent film, including two live performances to accompany screenings of The Seashell and the Clergyman and Foreign Body.

The season continues until Sun 20 October with further highlights including Destino, Disney’s lost animation made in collaboration with Salvador Dalí, screening alongside Hitchcock’s classic Spellbound, for which Dalí contributed audacious dream sequences; David Lynch’s body horror Eraserhead, and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, a one of a kind Afro surrealist docu-fiction.

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Our Head of Cinema, David Nixon, says:

“We’re excited to bring Dundee audiences this diverse season of films exploring the influence of surrealism across many decades and many genres in cinema history.

"With focuses on Luis Buñuel’s early silent films, Salvador Dalí’s collaborations with Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, pioneering women in surrealist film, the Czech New Wave, and the beginnings of Afro-surrealism, our season promises to take you on a cinematic journey into the unconscious mind on screen. "

Surrealism on Film runs from Sat 21 September – Sun 20 October, booking now online and at our Box Office.

Surrealism on Film