Surrealist Film Review: Fellini’s 8½
"It is where Fellini blurs the lines between fantasy and reality that he has produced an authentic filter of a man’s consciousness."
A Clockwork Orange: “Kubrick’s masterclass of surrealism, disillusion and delinquency”
A Clockwork Orange remains an absolute classic to this day... It represents the best of Stanley Kubrick’s vision and surrealism, and marks itself as completely unique. These types of movies represented a mental workout for the viewer, a way to leave the cinema bamboozled and desperately craving for a rewatch.
Surrealism on film: Fellini and ‘Juliet of the Spirits’
Everyone’s going a bit crazy these days.
I, for one, am happy to admit that the last few months have been quite bizarre, and...
Murakami’s ‘Killing Commendatore’: where art can transport you
Murakami’s Killing Commendatore got me thinking about art within literature. We can easily find examples of literature within art: Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Millais’ Ophelia,...
Dora Maar and the Everyday Strange
The women of the Surrealist movement have suffered a curious case of the feminine shadow, what could be termed Muse Syndrome. Often, their biographical and artistic legacies have been dogged by their associations to prominent male surrealists; the result, an awkward and myopic epitaph.
Dream Worlds
Marc Chagall's ethereal landscapes
Snapshot: Salvador Dali and the legacy of surrealism
Jasmin Yang-Spooner discusses Salvador Dali's development of the Paranoiac Critical Transformation Method and the legacy of surrealism