Movies: Surrealism

In a transitional state, at the threshold of consciousness // fabricating and reminiscing //embracing and escaping // all from safe distance // letting go....

An isolated introverted man who lives an airstream talks to himself before going on a date with a pessimistic extraverted woman and has trouble communicating his thoughts. Meanwhile, he escapes to a fantasy where he has no problem connecting with her...

Laura is a pregnant woman who craves beans. After taking a bite of an apple, Laura realizes that she has lost both hands. The trauma haunts Laura during her surreal journey....

In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, video and performance artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and ...

A young filmmaker looking for production assistance....

A prestigious Arabic speaker lost his passport. When she tries to leave the university where she gave her lecture, it begins an odyssey for her...

A woman is born from the waves of the infinite ocean. She accompanies us throughout our lives. She embodies the timeless beauty, peace and tranquility. A dream, the dream of all. And without our dreams we would run completely alone....

In 1924 California’s Tribune-American newspaper ran a competition for its readers to write in with their most unusual dreams and the winning entry was made into a short film. This is Mrs L.L. Nicholson from Oakland’s dream of losing her baby, rowing ...

A surrealist saga in four parts: 1.) The credit sequence in which title cards show successively larger foetuses pulsating on the screen until the baby is born and cries. 2.) Etoile-directly referring to Cocteau, Lethem shows an adolescent sucking a...

A man without a voice encounters his duplicate on a beach. He is then told to go for a walk....

In a decaying house, various mystical and chaotic figures live together and roam the endless corridors with a mysterious purpose until the cycle is complete....

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Evocation of André Breton's role in the surrealist movement, on images of landscapes, Paris, surrealist paintings, faces of young girls and ruins of castles. The main themes addressed: poetry, love, freedom. (source: Media-Scéren)...

In this surreal romance, two young lovers lose their sense of identity through the powerful, and manipulated, emotions of love....

Within a single space, the director treats the sorrows of two people married to each other....

A man follows a mysterious cream salesman to his home....

A young Israeli-American woman, unsure of herself, decides to take control of her dreams....

A short cartoon I made at NYU's summer session. - WW....

Disillusioned by their art, an actor approaching the end of their 20s embarks on a surreal series of events leading them to reflect on their journey so far, what’s ahead, and the big question: Are they just wasting their time?...

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