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Film: Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
Year: 1978
Genre: Documentary
Description: Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist. Classic Arena documentary, made in 1978. George Melly takes a wayward day trip to the Hayward Gallery and a major show of pictures from the days of Dada and Surrealism. His indirect journey, inspired by the Surrealist derive, takes him through rooms, streets, a strange cafe, with brief curious encounters on the way. Among them, the last of the surrealists in England including Eileen Agar, Conroy Maddox, Robert Melville and Roland Penrose, punk rock band The Stranglers, and an elephant. Melly intersperses the journey with memories of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and E.L.T. Mesens, talking about the influence of Dada and Surrealism on his early life.
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Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
Classic Arena documentary, made in 1978. George Melly takes a wayward day trip to the Hayward Gallery and a major show of pictures from the days of Dada and Surrealism. His indirect journey, inspired by the Surrealist derive, takes him through rooms, streets, a strange cafe, with brief curious encounters on the way. Among them, the last of the surrealists in England including Eileen Agar, Conroy Maddox, Robert Melville and Roland Penrose, punk rock band The Stranglers, and an elephant. Melly intersperses the journey with memories of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and E.L.T. Mesens, talking about the influence of Dada and Surrealism on his early life.
Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
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