Thursday,
March 31 at 7:00pm
Dalí
at International House
"I
believe that the moment is near when, by a procedure of active
paranoic thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion
and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality."
- Salvador Dalí
In
collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, International
House offers two films to further reveal the mind of Salvador
Dalí.
Un
Chien Andalou
dir.
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France, 1928, 35mm, 16 mins,
b/w
Spanish
director Luis Buñuel's first film, the surrealistic masterpiece
Un Chien Andalou, was written over the course of a
three-day exchange of fantasies and dreams with Salvador Dalí
and contains what is, perhaps, the most memorable and shocking
opening scene in all of world cinema. Drawing its inspiration
from poetry, freed from reason and traditional morality, Un
Chien Andalou has no ‘plot’ — only innuedos; no logic
except that of the nightmare; no reality except the inner universe
of the subconscious.
followed
by
L’Age
D’Or
dir.
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí,
France, 1930, 35mm, 63 mins, b/w, French w/ English
subtitles
New
35mm Restoration!
 As
scorpions battle, partisans (led by famed surrealist painter
Max Ernst) stumble and the forces of middle-class righteousness
repeatedly interrupt two neurotic lovers, L'Age D’or delivers
a gleeful fever dream of Freudian unease, bizarre humor and
shocking imagery that once experienced cannot be forgotten.
Skewering everything from Catholic piety to sexual fetishism,
the film provoked riots, was denounced by Mussolini's ambassador,
earned its backer a threat of excommunication and was banned
by the French Police all within two weeks of its release.
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