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FICM Offers Course in Cinematographic
Appreciation, Film and Surrealism 2

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Program

Day 1: Surrealism in film according to Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

• Revolution in An Adalusian Dog and The Golden Age.
• Buñuel and Dalí in Hollywood. Dalí and his collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock. Buñuel and his flirtation with U.S. horror cinema.
• Buñuel and his arrival in Mexico. The Forgotten and other gems from his period in Mexico.
• Antecedents of surrealism in the silent films of the ?20s. The mechanical ballet of Fernand Leger and other experimental directors of the period, Man Ray, Jean Epstein and Marcel Duchamp.
• Buster Keaton: surrealist icon.

DAY 2: Echoes of surrealism.

• The influence of surrealism in musicals and U.S. horror films. Busby Berkeley and his surrealist kaleidoscopes.
• Surrealism according to Disney. Fantasia, Dumbo and Alice in Wonderland up to the frustrated collaboration of Dalí with Disney-Destino: the incomplete short cartoon.
• The Marx Brothers Humor: anarchy and surrealism.
• The sixties: Recovery of the surrealist vocation. Psychedelics and revolution.
• Fellini: Juliet and the Spirits
• The Beatles: The Yellow Submarine
• Alejandro Jodorowsky: Panic imagery 

DAY 3: Buñuel's return to his origins.

• The Exterminating Angel: Buñuel and the transition from Mexico to Europe.
• Luis Buñuel's French period.
• The Phantom of Liberty and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, last master works by Buñuel.
• Why Transformers 2 is the closest example of a surrealist film in contemporary cinema?

Free admission

Limited space

The course will be held in the Salón de Usos Múltiples at the Morelia International Film Festival Office, on Melchor Ocampo 35, Colonia Centro Morelia, Michoacán 58000

For more information :

Telephone (443) 317-7801 and 02

E-mail: Susana Juárez susajd@gmail.com

Nadia Irlanda Anaya nadiairlanda@gmail.com