Summary of surrealist film: A movement created after the Dada movement in the 1920's. Focused on changing narrative style of film, mixing the conventions until it made to conventional sense, aiming to derange, upset, disorientate and shock.
Surrealism evolved from the Dada movement. Andre Breton founded the movement in 1924 and drafted the manifesto.
Aims of surrealist films and animations: Movement= use of shocking, irrational, or absurd imagery and Freudian dream symbolism, to challenge the traditional function of art to represent reality. Filmmakers rejected conventional narrative forms, attempted to disrupt narrative conventions, mixing them all around until nothing made conventional sense. Aimed to derange meaning, upset, disorientate and shock. Image rather than word. Wanted to liberate Western culture from tyranny and repression of reason and reveal the true nature of reality.
The filmmakers I found interesting were, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali and Alfred Hitchcock.
They had an interesting look on the world through their films.
We watched a dream sequence from Spellbound and Un Chien Andalou. Both were really weird and didn't make any sense
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