I've been exploring surrealism and have come to find that the masters of surrealism where
exploring the works of Freud and the realms of the subconscious mind, but, they were choosing
to express they're subconscious mind through art and more importantly through their conscious.
Which is contradictory.
However many surrealist films have dream like qualities that I can explore.
focusing on the absurdities of dreaming, often I wake up remembering what I was thinking
in my dreams, and then as I slip into conscious while recalling the state of mind i was in, my thoughts, though rational in my dream state, prove to be highly irrational in conscious state.
Here Gondry uses many props to express a dream like environment.
This video wouldn't upload so here is a clip from youtube
Germaine Dulac's The Seashell and The Clergyman
What I found dreamlike from this clip of The Seashell and The Clergyman
was the use of fade between scenes and even the fades from the character
moving from the distant background to foreground.
The use of many halls and door also reminded me of the interior of the old
house in which most of my short film takes place in.
Music plays a large role in the portrayal of atmosphere, must consider mellow
and long drawn out tunes.
Jean Cocteau's Le Sang d_un poète (the blood of the poet)
This piece similar in style to the previous " Seashell and The Clergyman"
has the same transitions but with narration. I feel the narration gives a distanced
point of view allowing the viewer to feel more distanced from the events therefore
the film can be seen as a story told of a dream.
The transition of scenes through a key hole works well as it gives a voyeuristic feel
of peering through locked doors. I would use this transition perhaps after the each interview
to allow the view to feel as though they were flowing through the environment rather than
the protagonist solely leading them.
Man Ray's L_étoile de mer (the star fish)
Salvador Dali' and Walt Dysney's Destino
