Funhouse Madhouse: Nazis, Stalin, and the Hourglass Sanatorium
Allegory, symbolism, fantasy, and surrealism are often the refuge of artists working under the...
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Tag: Surrealism
Legacies of Sade: Man Ray’s Imaginary Portraits
“Sade is surrealist in sadism.” —André Breton The legacy of the Marquis de Sade can be felt...
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Feminine Fury Revisited: Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face
“And now you see these rabid creatures overtaken: they have fallen into sleep, abominations...
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Nocturnal Disturbances: Michel Leiris’s Nights as Day, Days as Night
In front of a crowd of gawking spectators — of whom I am one — a series of executions is being...
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An Andrzej Żuławski Retrospective: Cosmos
For me, Andrzej Żuławski’s thirteenth and final feature film, Cosmos (2015), is a bittersweet...
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The Politics of the Bizarre: the comically strange, strangely comic, and surreal world of Walerian Borowczyk’s Short Films and Animation
There is a good chance that many of you reading this know of Walerian Borowczyk by his erotic,...
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Busted Guts: Cracking Open Comedy Cinema
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