May. 27, 2011 at 11:43am with 18 notes
experimental filmsurrealist filmGermaine DulacAntonin Artaud
The Seashell and the Clergyman, 1927by Germaine Dulacscreenplay by Antonin Artaud Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 “The Seashell and the Clergyman penetrates the skin of material reality and plunges the viewer into an unstable landscape where the image cannot be trusted. Remarkably, Artaud not only subverts the physical, surface image, but also its interconnection with other images. The result is a complex, multi-layered film, so semiotically unstable that images dissolve into one another both visually and ‘semantically’, truly investing in film’s ability to act upon the subconscious.” Lee Jamieson

The Seashell and the Clergyman, 1927
by Germaine Dulac
screenplay by Antonin Artaud

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

“The Seashell and the Clergyman penetrates the skin of material reality and plunges the viewer into an unstable landscape where the image cannot be trusted. Remarkably, Artaud not only subverts the physical, surface image, but also its interconnection with other images. The result is a complex, multi-layered film, so semiotically unstable that images dissolve into one another both visually and ‘semantically’, truly investing in film’s ability to act upon the subconscious.”

Lee Jamieson


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