What is a Surreal Movie? | Video Essay

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What is a surreal movie? Is it a film filled with creepy and weird imagery? A stream of visual non-sequiturs with the only goal to provoke? In this video we want to show how movie surrealism first started out and how we can recognize some of it's lasting and derived appeal.

Make sure to give us your Surreal movie recommendations down in the comments.

Video made by Moises & Sergio Velasquez

■ Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:05 - Irrational
7:02 - Dreams
10:14 - Ad
11:26 - Nightmares
14:43 - Outro

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■ Sources:
1,5,6,7 - The First Surrealism Manifesto by André Breton
2,4 - Surrealism and Cinema by Michael Richardson
3,9 - The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film edited by Graeme Harper and Rob Stone
8 - The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud

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■ Movies Clips in the Video Essay:
500 Days of Summer
8 ½
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Alice
Being John Malkovich
Brazil
Dimensions of Dialogue
Donnie Darko
Enter the Void
Eraserhead
Fantastic Planet
Faust
Food
Holy Motors
House
Inception
Inland Empire
L’Âge d’Or
Little Otik
Long Day's Journey into Night
Mirror
Modern Times
Naked Lunch
Paprika
Shutter Island
Spellbound
Synecdoche, New York
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Big Lebowski
The Blood of a Poet
The Color of Pomegranates
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Exterminating Angel
The Fall
The Holy Mountain
The Science of Sleep
The Seashell and the Clergyman
Un Chien Andalou
Vertigo
Videodrome
Wild Strawberries

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