https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs Exploring the beginning of surrealist cinema and its tropes, and how its legacy has survived through to modern cinema. en-us 2021-11-29 20:19:44 UTC 2026-02-12 05:08:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4fd.png aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918921669 https://www.theartstory.org/movement/surrealist-film/
Directed by Germaine Dulac from a screenplay by Antonin Artaud, The Seashell and the Clergyman is considered by most critics to be the first true Surrealist film

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Surrealist films created a revolution in cinema by dispensing with linear narratives and plots, thereby freeing cinema from a reliance on traditional story-telling borrowed from literature. Surrealism creates the possibility of cinema itself as an independent and unique visual art form.

Surrealist films do not merely retell dreams or stories but replicate their very processes through illogical, irrational disruptions and disturbing imagery, uncensored by normal wakeful consciousness or morality. Surrealist filmmakers found new techniques to convey the atmosphere and incongruous states of dreams. Like dreams, many Surrealist films resist interpretation. As in actual dreams, characters in Surrealist films display a lack of will, even a certain impotence. There is a forfeiting of control and a complete submission to the dream state.

]]> 2021-11-29 20:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918923458 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918924677 Using Freudian methods of free association, their poetry and prose drew upon the private world of the mind, traditionally restricted by reason and societal limitations, to produce surprising, unexpected imagery. The cerebral and irrational tenets of Surrealism find their ancestry in the clever and whimsical disregard for tradition fostered by Dadaism a decade earlier.]]> 2021-11-29 20:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918924677 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918925801 Father of surrealism

Officially consecrated in Paris in 1924 with the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism by the poet and critic André Breton (1896–1966), Surrealism became an international intellectual and political movement.]]> 2021-11-29 20:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918925801 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918927814 According to the Surrealists, Aristotle’s classical model privileges the “logic” of construction and explanation over autonomous creativity, representing a vile form of “literary contamination”, which stifles the authentic artistic potential of the cinema. Within Aristotle’s model, each event within the story is explained and develops out of what precedes it]]> 2021-11-29 20:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918927814 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918931025 The Surrealists seek to subvert this “commercialized” filmmaker’s model, as their interests lie in portraying the dream, not reality. Reworking the traditional æsthetic structures of the cinema, they strive to elicit the dreamer’s experience of the unconscious within the cinema-house.]]> 2021-11-29 20:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918931025 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918932243 2021-11-29 20:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918932243 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918933673 Surrealism also rejected the Dada disgust with self-indulgent expressionism but returning to individual vision, but the site of this vision was the untapped unconscious mind.  In contrast to the deliberately disruptive and antagonistic tactics of the Dada artists, the Surrealists sought what they called “the Marvelous,” or that magically unexpected encounter when the ordinary suddenly became extraordinary.]]> 2021-11-29 20:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918933673 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918936755 New wave (American and French) came after the surrealist period, adapting a more marketable style of filmmaking, but nevertheless was a stance against Hollywood.]]> 2021-11-29 20:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918936755 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918939492 The larger issue here is whether avant-garde aesthetics or ideas can ever be incorporated into a commercial mass medium without some sort of compromise. In one obvious sense, the notion of ‘commercialisation’ seems inappropriate in regard to the New Wave: were not these films produced within an entirely state-controlled film industry that protected filmmakers from the vulgarising pressures of the marketplace? ]]> 2021-11-29 20:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918939492 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918942375 The cremator

Valerie and her week of wonders

Daisies

-a reaction to the reign of communism in Czechoslovakia 
-took inspiration from the surrealist movement but fuelled with narrative and politics]]> 2021-11-29 20:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918942375 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918945646 Took a surreal environment and gave it a narrative.

Modern day Surrealist

Perhaps the original surrealists would not agree with this being classed as surrealism?]]> 2021-11-29 20:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918945646 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918948163 A response to the seashell and the clergyman. Recognised as still one of the most influential, shockingly surreal films ever made.
Had less of a narrative and many different interpretations, deeming it the first actual surrealist film made to some critics.]]> 2021-11-29 20:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918948163 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918949925 2021-11-29 20:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918949925 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918951056 Modern surrealism? or just surreal.]]> 2021-11-29 20:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918951056 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918952366 Modern day surrealist - perhaps the future?]]> 2021-11-29 20:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918952366 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918953411 2021-11-29 20:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918953411 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918956829 Perhaps the most enticing thing about Lynch's surreal masterpieces are his explorations of mystery, drawing the audience along and allowing different interpretations.]]> 2021-11-29 20:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918956829 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918957626 2021-11-29 20:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918957626 aravenshear2 https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918960927 Surreal narratively and visually, but a dominant political statement. This use of surrealism contradicts the manifesto.]]> 2021-11-29 20:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aravenshear2/g6ah1gdmze3i0igs/wish/1918960927