IDS 101: Salvador Dalí's Surrealism: Films, Music and Websites

A major critical film biography of Salvador Dalí, the great Spanish painter and self-styled genius.

Filmed in the subjective language of the unconscious, this early avant-garde film is a surrealist tale of unfulfilled desire, based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel.

Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police.

Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature - or so she thinks. That is until the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at the Green Manors Mental Asylum...

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better. Includes Dalí!

Stylized biography of noted eighteenth century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat Nova, based on his writings

A mysterious figure and his seven followers attempt to ascend the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

A young man finds a severed ear whose trail leads him to a detective's daughter and a mesmerizing beauty in this surreal journey that peeks through the windows and over the well-trimmed hedges of a small town, discovering murder, mystery and perversion.

An everyman lured off the streets of Prague finds himself becoming Faust and entering a world of mind-boggling magic and strange encounters.

Isabella Rossellini stars as a Depression-era beer baroness who sponsors a contest to find the world's saddest tune in this dark comedy.

This seven-disc collection contains 155 avant-garde films, revealing hitherto unknown accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of cinema until World War II.

Two famous short films by Dulac, both pioneering examples of surrealistic film. The first based on the play by Denys Amiel. In the second film, a clergyman, committed by his calling to celibacy but in love with a romantic beauty, is afflicted by sexual torments he is unable to resolve. The surrealist film is composed of a series of episodes using Freudian imagery to express the clergyman's mental anguish.

Impressions of Nice, France, featuring the Mardi Gras celebration. Employs some Surrealist or Dada techniques.

The imagination of nine-year-old Bart Collins comes to life in this fantasy film filled with surreal landscapes and tongue-twisting rhymes.

In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection.

A surrealistic portrayal of poverty, hunger, and death in a 16th century Mexican village. (Spanish with English subtitles)

Ubu Roi is one of the precursors to the Theatre of the Absurd and the greater surrealist art movement of the early twentieth century.

A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.

The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.