Return to reason Four films by Man Ray
Blu-ray - 2025
The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts Le retour a la raison, Emak Bakia, L'etoile de mer, and Les mysteres du chateau du dé find the visionary artist experimenting with the limitless possibilities of montage, superimposition, distortion, and even the application of objects directly onto celluloid. Set here to an ethereal score by the Jim Jarmusch Carter Logan collaboration SQÜRL, these cine-poems are optical carnival rides that surprise, delight, and unsettle with each tantalizing frame.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Fiction films
Experimental films
Silent films
Short films
Films de fiction
Films expérimentaux
Films muets
Courts métrages - Published
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Criterion
[2025]
- Language
- No linguistic content
French
English - Other Authors
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- Edition
- Criterion collection
- Item Description
- Title from web page.
Special features: Featurettes; theatrical trailer. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (70 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player.
- Audience
- Rating: Not rated.
- ISBN
- 9798886073614
- Return to reason = Retour a la raison (1923)
- Emak-bakia (1926)
- The Starfisher = Etoile de mer (1928)
- Mysteries of the Chateau de Dé = Mysteres du Chateau du Dé (1929).