PROJECTIONS: Surrealist Cinema

Surrealist artists are interested in the capacity of film to nullify reality’s boundaries. As the critic René Gardies observed in 1968, film is “a privileged instrument de-realising the world, providing alchemical tools for transforming reality.” In this course, we will explore the overlap between the psychoanalytic method and surrealist cinema – two disciplines that insist on the supremacy of the unconscious, working through absurd dream logic, calling out the banality and hypocrisy of so-called civilised society. Studying works by filmmakers including Luis Buñuel, Věra Chytilová, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Jan Švankmajer and Maya Deren, the proposition is that surrealism is a revolutionary anti-art much like the psychoanalytic process, unlocking the mind’s creative potential by overcoming repression. Please go to the website for the day's schedule.

Suitable for
18+

Admission
Standard £65 Concession £48 Member £48 Patron £48

Website
https://www.freud.org.uk/event/projections-surrealist-cinema-intensive-day-course/#

Source: https://www.culture24.org.uk/se000274?id=EVENT591847