A Forest Pt. 7: My Delirium with André

03Apr13

In the summer of 1935 Man Ray began the shooting of a film at Lise Deharme’s country house in southern France. The other participants were Paul and Nusch Eluard, Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton. Nothing remained from this attempt at simulating cinematographic delirium but the stills and captions above, which appeared in the Cahiers d’art […]

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Tags: André Breton, Cinema, Edmond Richard, Essai de simulation du délire cinématographique, Film, Jacques Brunius, l'un à l'autre, Le Surréalisme, Lise Deharme, Man Ray, Paul Eluard, Pierre Braunberger, Raymond Borde, Robert Benayoun, surrealism

A Forest Pt. 6: Poison Ivies (Crimes of Passion)

17Mar13

In 1929 André Breton tried  his hand, together with Albert Valentin,  at a screenplay based on Barbey d’Aurevilly’s short story Le Rideau cramoisi (The Crimson Curtain).Nothing came out of this project as they couldn’t find a producer. In 1953 Alexandre Astruc succeeded in making an adaptation of Le Rideau Cramoisi for Anatole Dauman’s company Argos Films. […]

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Tags: Albert Valentin, Alexandre Astruc, Anatole Dauman, André Breton, Anouk Aimée, Argos Films, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Crimson Curtain, Francine Bergé, Gustave Moreau, Le Rideau Cramoisi, Les Abysses, Les crimes de l'amour, Maurice Barry, Maurice Clavel, Mina de Vanghel, Nico Papatakis, Papin sisters, Stendhal

A Forest Pt. 4: A Passage in Time

15Dec12

Only a few months ago I was able to satisfy myself, while pondering the single theme of a remarkable film entitled Berkeley Square – the new occupant of an old castle manages, by bringing back to life in his hallucinations those who occupied it in former times, not only to mingle with them but also, […]

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Tags: André Breton, Berkeley Square, Cinema, Film, H. P. Lovecraft, Movie, Poème Objet, Portrait de l'acteur A.B. dans son rôle mémorable l'an de grâce 1713, Shadow out of Time, surrealism, Time Travel

A Forest Pt. 2: Phantoms of Liberty

08Dec12

Screencap via Cockeyed Caravan Cinema, insofar as it not only, like poetry, represents the successive stages of life, but also claims to show the passage from one stage to the next, and insofar as it is forced to present extreme situations to move us, had to encounter humor almost from the start. The early comedies […]

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Tags: Al St. John, André Breton, Anthology of Black Humor, Charley Bowers, Fatty Arbuckle, It's a Bird, Mack Sennett, Million Dollar Legs, Minotaure, Slapstick, surrealism, W. C. Fields

A Forest Pt. 1: Psychogeography (Serialism)

06Dec12

One will soon understand that there was nothing more realist and more poetic at the same time as serials, which not long ago were the joy of  free spirits. It is in The Exploits of Elaine, it is in Les Vampires that one will have to search for the great reality of the century. Beyond […]

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Tags: André Breton, Irma Vep, Les Mystères de New York, Les Vampires, Louis Aragon, Louis Feuillade, Musidora, Nadja, Pearl White, Serial, Trail of the Octopus, Vamp

Cloud on Title

10May12

What an appealing  pattern a word cloud is to visually represent the relative importance of certain terms in a given context. But there seems to be some uncertainty as to its progenitors.  Wikipedia proposes  as “early printed example of a weighted list of English keywords (…) the subconscious files in Douglas Coupland‘s Microserfs” which appeared […]

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Tags: André Breton, Douglas Coupland, Erutarettil, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, littérature, Mille Plateaux, nuage de mots-clés, Robert Desnos, schlagwortwolke, surrealism, tag cloud, weighted list, word cloud