A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but ...

If French films have a flair for love, the Italian cinema has a zest for decadence. Most major Italian directors have their own highly personal vision of spiritual and psychological deterioration, ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

The Barnes Foundation is continuing its work of being a local bastion of the arts by bringing people together.

In 1937, Salvador Dalí conceived of a movie for the Marx Brothers, called Giraffes on Horseback Salad. It was never made, partly because it was too weird and unfilmable in its day, partly because ...

Gala Dalí wearing the "Shoe Hat" and "Lips Jacket," which she inspired. They were designed by Schiaparelli in collaboration with Salvador Dalí in 1938. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala–Salvador Dalí, ...

Do you ever find yourself in “the gap”? The space between two things? The area after one but before the other? The moment between the end and the next beginning? A transition unrequested but currently ...

AMSTERDAM — The Czech master of surrealist cinema, Jan Svankmajer, is revered by animators for his stop-motion movies that are by turns absurd, grotesque, erotic and horrific. In his short film “Lunch ...

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The pale young people who drink sherry at little tables and decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams.

Surreal cinema exists at the edges of logic, dream, and nightmare. It's an offshoot of a broader artistic movement that began after World War I, which focused on the expression of the unconscious.