Two Surrealist Reflections
To surrealistiske høydepunkt, hvorav den ene har levende musikk ved Anja Lauvdal.
Rose Hobart
Regi: Joseph Cornell
1936
35mm to digital
20min
The first and greatest American Surrealist, Joseph Cornell is best known for his mysterious assemblages and boxes. Rose Hobart consists almost entirely of footage taken from East of Borneo, a 1931 jungle B-film starring the nearly forgotten actress Rose Hobart. Cornell condensed the 77-minute feature into a 20-minute short, removing virtually every shot that didn’t feature Hobart. Cornell holds Hobart in a state of semi-suspension, turning the film itself into a sort of box. This world appears as a sort of strange theatre, staged for her alone.
La Coquille et Le Clergyman
Regi: Germaine Dulac
1928
35mm
40min
This can be regarded as the first surrealist film and Dulac as a pioneer feminist and experimental filmmaker.
The film follows the erotic hallucinations of a priest lusting after the wife of a general. It penetrates the skin of material reality and plunges the viewer into an unstable landscape where the image cannot be trusted.
An important early example of radical experimental feminist filmmaking, an antidote to the art made by the surrealist brotherhood. A visually imaginative critique of patriarchy – state and church – and of male sexuality.
This film will be soundtracked live by the renowned Norwegian musician and composer Anja Lauvdal.
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