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Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess (1987)

Director

Jean-Marie Drot

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 56 minutes), £14.95

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1868), inventor of the ready-made and ‘godfather’ of Dada and surrealism, abandoned art in 1923. This interview was filmed for his first one-man show in 1963 and gives a unique...

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Joan MirÓ: The Ladder of Escape (2012)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 32 minutes), £15.99

This documentary explores the life and work of Catalonian artist Joan Miro, and seeks to understand how the political upheavals of of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorship of Franco...

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Max Ernst: Voyages of Discovery into the Unconscious (1964)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), a leading member of the surrealist movement, interprets his own work.

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Chance, History, Art (2006)

Director

James Scott

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

The film, originally conceived as a study of the effects of surrealism on art, consists of interviews with five artists, intercut with film of Jackson Pollock painting and a young child drawing, and...

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Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint-Idesbald (1987)

Director

Adrian Maben

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 58 minutes), £17.99

Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) was a surrealist painter famours for his mysterious, dreamlike paintings. Produced when the artist was in his 90s, this film provides a unique insight into his work and his intense...

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Chien Andalou, Un (1928 Video)

Director

Luis Buñuel

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. silent. 32 min., 1998 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A surrealist short film (17 min) which includes dead donkeys on pianos and starts with a woman’s eyeball being cut by a razor blade.

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Case of Marcel Duchamp As Investigated by Sherlock Holmes, The (1984)

Director

David Rowan

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £30.00

A witty, feature-length drama documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with...

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Max Ernst (1991)

aka: Max Ernst: ‘My Vagabondage, My Restlessness’

Director

Peter Schamoni

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 102 minutes), £14.95

The German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a leading member of the surrealist movement, and his later work continued to combine technical experimentation with vivid fantasy. This film celebrates...

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René Magritte (2007 Video)

aka: Monsieur RenÉ Magritte

Director

Adrian Maben

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £17.99

Profiles Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) and shows the recurring influence of certain themes and places on his work. Visits the various towns where he lived and which were a source of inspiration...

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Entr’Acte (1924 Film)

Director

René Clair

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The famous surrealist film made by a team of leading French intellectuals of the 1920s to fill an intermission between the two acts of the Francis Picabia’s Dada ballet ‘Rel ache’, performed by the...

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