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Now showing — Surrealist Sketch Show · 5 works

  • Daisies Film · 1960s

    Daisies is a 1966 Czechoslovak satirical avant-garde surrealist farcical arthouse comedy film written and directed by Věra Chytilová. Widely regarded as a milestone of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement, the film follows two young women, both named Marie, as they engage in a series of bizarre, rebellious and anarchi...

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Atlanta Television · 2010s

    A Princeton dropout manages his rapper cousin in Atlanta. Surrealism meets Black American experience.

    PowerLongingSurveillance
  • Twin Peaks Television · 1990s

    Who killed Laura Palmer? Small-town America as surrealist nightmare.

    PowerAfter-hoursSurveillance
  • The Hearing Trumpet Books · 1950s

    Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of...

    LongingMemoryMigration
  • El Topo Film · 1970s

    A gunfighter seeks enlightenment in the desert. Surrealism, spirituality, and the midnight movie.

    After-hoursFolkloreRitual
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