Surrealist film

“Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explo

As we continue to engage with art remotely, LACMA’s Assistant Curator for Film, Adam Piron will recommend a biweekly selection of new and classic films that provide a distilled focus on filmmakers, performers, and genres available to stream from home. Film has an important place at LACMA and we believe in its role as a point of connection, education, and comfort for our audiences and members.There’s a dreamlike quality that’s infused in what we’ve slowly been calling our new reality.

Man Ray was one of the leading artists of the avant garde of 1920s and 1930s Paris. A key figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements, his works spanned various media, including film.

The fantastical world of Leonora Carrington – painter, novelist and lover to Max Ernst – is finally seeing due celebration in a new book

Dreams in Jean Cocteau's films Blood of a Poet and Testament of Orpheus?

Posts about Carole Lombard written by Sarah McGowan