June 2012
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La coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) by Germaine Dulac, 1926. Black and white film, 31:44.
This film was denounced by Antonin Artaud and the surrealists as betraying the true spirit of their movement so some think of this a German Expressionism. Artaud was in fact the man who wrote the scenario upon which the film is based and he disapproved of Dulac’s treatment.
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The Automatic Crystal
by Aimé Césaire
hello hello night again don’t worry about it this is
your cave man speaking grasshoppers whose life
is as dizzy as their death green lagoon water even
drowned that will never be my color thinking of
you I have to pawn all my worlds a whole stream of
gold as the bread and the wine of your breasts hello
hello I’d like to be on the...
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Don Cherry by Jean-Noël Delamare, Nathalie Perrey, and Phillippe Gras. Short film, 16 minutes. Don Cherry, trumpet, illustrating an Andre Breton poem in various Paris locations.
Breton poem read by Anthony Braxton.
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