{"id":3899,"date":"2018-12-24T00:14:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T23:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T15:39:08","slug":"close-up-film-course-surrealism-in-cinema-from-luis-buuel-to-david-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/2018\/12\/close-up-film-course-surrealism-in-cinema-from-luis-buuel-to-david-lynch\/","title":{"rendered":"Close-Up Film Course: Surrealism in Cinema from Luis Bu\u00f1uel to David Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Surrealism\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Close-Up Film Course: Surrealism in Cinema from Luis Bu\u00f1uel to David Lynch<\/b>
Lecturer: Virginie S\u00e9lavy
Dates: 26 February, 5, 12, 19, 26 March 2019
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Close-Up Film Centre<\/a>, London
Fees: \u00a375 \/ \u00a360 conc. \/ \u00a350 Close-Up members
Book tickets on the Close-Up website<\/a><\/p>\n

Electric Sheep founder Virginie S\u00e9lavy explores the influence of Surrealism on cinema in a new and expanded five-week film course running from 26 February – 26 March 2019 at London’s Close-Up Film Centre.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Surrealism is one of the art movements that has had the strongest influence on cinema and its impact has lasted to the present day. Emerging at the beginning of the 20th century when cinema was still in its infancy, its focus on dreams and the unconscious made it particularly apt to help shape the new art of moving images. Rejecting a rational approach to the world, the Surrealists led by Andr\u00e9 Breton sought to free mankind from artistic as well as moral and social conventions, liberating imagination to reveal the deeper connections between dream and reality. Their revolutionary artistic techniques had a political dimension and aimed at shaking up the established order in the widest sense. Central to this art of revolt were themes of violence and desire, their subversive intensity deployed to shock audiences out of their complacent worldviews.<\/p>\n

This five-week course will explore the influence of Surrealism on cinema from the beginnings of the movement through to 1960s psychedelia and experimentation, up until its more recent incarnation in the films of Guy Maddin and David Lynch.<\/p>\n

Course breakdown<\/b><\/p>\n

Week 1 \u2013 The Beginnings of Surrealist cinema <\/b>
\nLuis Bu\u00f1uel and Salvador Duan\u0161\u2019s Un chien andalou <\/i>(1929) and L\u2019\u00e2ge d\u2019or<\/i> (1930), Germaine Dulac and Antonin Artaud\u2019s The Seashell and the Clergyman<\/i> (1928), Jean Cocteau\u2019s The Blood of a Poet<\/i> (1931)<\/p>\n

Week 2 \u2013 Luis Bu\u00f1uel and Spanish-Latin American Surrealism<\/b>
\nThe later part of Luis Bu\u00f1uel\u2019s career, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Juan L\u00f3pez Moctezuma and Panique<\/p>\n

Week 3 \u2013 Post-war Surrealism in France<\/b>
\nGeorges Franju, Jean Rollin, Walerian Borowczyk, Roland Topor, Jean Ferry and Harry K\u00fcmel<\/p>\n

Week 4 \u2013 Eastern European Surrealism 1960s-70s<\/b>
\nJaromil Jire\u0161\u2019s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders<\/em> (1970), V\u011bra Chytilov\u00e1\u2019s Daisies <\/em>(1966), Jan N\u011bmec\u2019s The Party and the Guests<\/em> (1966), Du\u0161an Makavejev\u2019s W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism <\/em>(1971), Wojciech Has\u2019 Hourglass Sanatorium<\/em> (1973), Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski’s The Devil<\/em> (1972)<\/p>\n

Week 5 \u2013 Surrealism in contemporary cinema<\/b>
\nJan \u0160vankmajer, Brothers Quay, Terry Gilliam, Guy Maddin, David Lynch<\/p>\n

(This content is indicative and not a detailed plan of each class)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Virginie S\u00e9lavy is the founder and editor of Electric Sheep<\/i>, the online magazine for transgressive cinema. She was the co-director of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies \u2013 London<\/a> from January 2015 to December 2017. She has edited the collection of essays The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology<\/i><\/a>, and has written a chapter for Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin<\/i> and contributed to World Directory Cinema: Eastern Europe <\/i>and Film Locations: Cities of the Imagination \u2013 London<\/i>. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Sight & Sound<\/i>, Rolling Stone France<\/i>, Cineaste<\/i> and Frieze<\/i>. She lectures on film and regularly gives talks on topics ranging from women exploitation directors to Michael Reeves, sorcery and the counterculture. She is currently working on a book on Sado-Masochism in cinema.<\/p>\n

For more information visi<\/p>\n

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