VOL 1 - BUNUEL & DALI MEET DR. FREUD

UN CHIEN ANDALOU - Salvador Dali and Louis Bunuel collaborated on this famous avant garde film. A cascade of images -- ants emerging from a human palm, an eyeball being slit, a severed hand in the street -- follow. The result is a remarkable surreal film with little symbolism. Presented with a synchronized music score that Bunuel added in the 1930's. (1928)

THE HEARTS OF AGE - This surreal short of a street magician was the first film shot by Orson Welles. The imaginative camera angles and special effects hint at the images he would later present in Citizen Kane. Music score. (1934)

BALLET MECHANIQUE - Fernan Leger weaves images of geometric shapes and humans into a symbolic Freudian dance.

40 min. Silent films with added music scores.
ISBN 1-55881-397-7
$19.95

VOL 2 - THE ANGEL WHO STEALS SURREALISTS' DREAMS

REGEN - (RAIN) A Lyrical filming of a rainstorm in Amsterdam by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken. (1929)

UBERFALL - The victim of a street robbery has persistent nightmares which are presented via a series of surreal dream sequences. (1929) 30 minutes.

30 min. Silent films with added music score.
ISBN 1-55881-398-5
$19.95

VOL 3- THE LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

During the civil war, a soldier faces execution for spying. Through an incredible quirk of fate the man seemingly escapes and makes his way back to his wife and peaceful life. In actuality, he is traveling through transfigured time and landscapes of dream, conscience and memory as he heads to a devastating supernatural destiny.

This was the original short film that inspired ‘Jacobs Ladder’

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL GRAND PRIX
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER

Written and directed by Robert Enrico. Story by Ambrose Bierce. Cast: Roger Jacquet, Ann Cornaly, Anker Larsen, Stephanie Fey.

1962 27 minutes.
ISBN 1-55881-399-3
$19.95

VOL 4 - DADA DOO DOO

SYMPHONIE DIAGONAL - Viking Eggeling’s smash Dada hit examines the fundamentals of cinematic time. Music score. (1921)

ENTRE'ACTE - Man Ray appears in this film directed by Rene Clair. A major early experiment in cinematic special effects; fast and slow motion, split screens superimpositions and more. Music score. (1924)

L’ETOILE DE MER - Man Ray lenses reality through a frosted glass. What happens in the film depends on what the viewer chooses to see. Music score. (1928)

30min. Silent films with added music score.
ISBN 1-55881-400-0
$19.95

THE RED BALLOON

Albert Lamorisse’s enchanting story of a young boy who befriends a giant red balloon that seems to have a life all its own. They play together in the streets and try to outwit a gang of street boys who are on the hunt--with a sharp needle!

Academy Award Winner.

France 1956 34m. No Dialog.
ISBN 1-55881-401-9
$19.95

VOL 6 - BUNUEL STRIKES AGAIN!

L’AGE D’OR

Some of the most stunning surreal images ever filmed are woven around the story of a man and a woman whose desires are being thwarted by bourgeois society. The end result is a dreamlike contrast between the sentiments of love and desire and other sentiments based a religious, patriotic or humanitarian order.

"The sexual instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy." ---Louis Bunuel.

Produced by Le Vicomte de Noailles. Directed by Luis Bunuel. Script by Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali. Photo by Albert Duverger. Music; Wagner, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Debussy. Cast: Lya Lys, Gaston Modot, Max Ernst, Pierre Prevert, Caridad de Laberdesque, Lionel Salem, Madame Noizet

France, 1930. Original silent segments with English title cards and original orchestra music. Sound segments in their original French dialog with English subtitles. 64m.
ISBN 1-.55881-025-0
$39.95

VOL7 - SALVADOR DALI

SALVADOR DALI A SOFT SELF-PORTRAIT

The crew behind this mockumentary shows up at Dali's house and the following dialog begins; "Mr. Dali, Will you come out?" -- "NO" -- “Well, can we come in ?” — "NO" -- "Do you want to talk to us? -"NO" -- Do you want to make this film? -"YES!". Although the film documents Dali's life and career, it is primarily an excuse for Dali to roam around the screen, shout absurdities, compare himself to Greek mythological figures, pour paint on models and imitate a chicken by emerging from a giant eggshell. Dali at his manic best!

Narrated by Orson Welles in English (more appropriately, Dali's absurd verseeioon of de Engleash).

60 minutes. Color. (Color is weak in some segments).
ISBN 1-55881-403-5
$29.95

VOL 8- DOUBLE VISION

The work and thoughts of two great artists are featured in this volume. First up is a serious and in depth documentary on the life and work of Max Ernst covering his early Paris years with the surrealists, his fall from grace, and work till his death. German made, English narration (40m). The second film is a kinescope excerpt of a BBC interview conducted in the 60's with Marcel Duchamps. (10m)

50min.
ISBN 1-55881-403-5
$29.95