List of films influenced by the Surrealist movement
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Dalí; Buñuel went on to direct many more films, with varying degrees of surrealist influence.
Modern films influenced by surrealism
The animated films of Isao Takahata began to have broad international influence in the 1970s. Experimental works by the anime production company Gainax tend to contain surreal elements, notably Hideaki Anno's movie The End of Evangelion. Angel's Egg, produced by Mamoru Oshii and artist Yoshitaka Amano, is perhaps the most notable example of surrealist influence in anime.
American directors
David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire)
Canadian directors
Brand Upon the Brain, My Winnipeg
)
Eastern European directors
- The Hour-Glass Sanatorium)[1]
New Asian directors
- Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, Real Fiction, Time, 3-Iron, Breath, Dream)[2][3][4][5]
See also
- New French Extremity
References
Notes
- Surrealist", wrote the Polish critic Aleksander Jackiewicz. "He would have redrawn antique objects with all their real accoutrements and juxtaposed them in unexpected ways." - http://koti.mbnet.fi/cgurney/reality/saragossa_wojciech.html
- ^ Dream Review at AsianMovieWeb
- ^ Breath Review at the Hollywood Reporter
- ^ The ferocious eye of Kim Ki-duk by Mike Walsh
- ^ "The Structure of Human Life": Kim Ki-duk Archived 2011-10-28 at the Wayback Machine at GreenCine
Further reading
- Le Cinéma des Surréalistes, ed. by Henri Béhar, Lausanne : L'age d'homme, 2004.
- Richardson, Michael. Surrealism and Cinema. Paperback edition. Oxford: Berg, 2006. ISBN 1-84520-226-0.
- Short, Robert. The Age of Gold: Surrealist Cinema. Creation Books, 2003. ISBN 1-84068-059-8.
- Williams, Linda. Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film. Paperback edition. University of California Press, 1992. ISBN 0-520-07896-9.
External links
- Surrealist Cinema at FilmReference.com
- Film glossary definition for: "Surrealism" at Allmovie
- List of Surrealist Films at Allmovie
- Surrealism Information at Klinkov Valeriy
- Surrealism and the Cinema (PDF) at Godnose.co.uk
- Harvard Film Archive - Adventures in Surrealism at Harvard University
- Aesthetics and Philosophy of Film - Surrealism and Dada at Harvard University
- The Surrealist Conspirator: An Interview With Jan Svankmajer at AWN.com