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HOME ALONE: Catherine Deneuve as Carofe in Roman Polanski’s 1965 film Repuision. The direc-
.tor’s second feature is included in the Pacific Cinematheque's overview of surreatist cinema.

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- Pacific Cinematheque surveys surrealism in film

Surrealism and the Cinema,
Pacific Cinematheque, 1137
‘Howe St., Vancouver. Sept. 4
to 30.

URREALISM WAS
perhaps the most
; flamboyant of the art
movements generated be-
tween the world wars.

Born out of the anarchism cf the
Dadaist esthetic and nurtured on
the disturbing revelations invoked

: by the advances of Freudian
psychology, it was, along with De
Stijl and the short-lived Soviet
Constructivist movement, one of
the most influential forces in
iiberating Western art from the
straitjacket of naturalism.

By giving priority to the
iconography of the subconscious
rather than the prasinatism of the
“rational” mind, it anticipated
the elimination of tangible reality
altogether as a prerequisite con-
tent in Western art.

Surrealism was thus partly

~ responsible for precipitating the
advent of Abstractionism, the
~ post-war American phenomenon
that would eventually come to
supplant it.
roof of the perseverance of the

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ART REVIEW

surrealist esthetic is the spate of
surrealist exhibits and events that
have surfaced in Vancouver
recently.

Noteworthy is the surrealist spin
given to the Shadbolt retrospective
covered in this column Aug. 19
and the Surrey Art Gallery’s
Women & Surrealism exhibit to be
reviewed here next week.

Even the Laniey Museum and

Exhibition Centre fas gotten into
the act by mounting an exhibit of
prints by Salvasior Dali — an event
many will look upon with some
trepidation given the promiscuous
nature of Dali’s signature in his
final years.

Perhaps the most illuminating
offering in Vancouver is that em-

- bodied in the cinematic docu-

ments which the surrealists
themselves produced during the
movernent'’s first decade. :
To commemorate its 20th anni-
versary, Pacific Cinematheque has
programmed a month-long cele-
bration of surrealist cinema
gravitating about and culminating
in La Gala, the fundraising Sur-
realist Ball held at the Vancouver
Art Gaflery recently in support of
Cinematheque'’s library and ar-

chives.
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