A triple feature of shorts begins tonight at 7 with Zero for Conduct / Un Chien Andalou / An Eater (Jean Vigo, 1933 / Luis Buñuel, 1929 / Nobuhiko Ôbayashi and Kazutomo Fujino, 1963) For Amos Vogel, aesthetics could be just as powerfully subversive as politics. Perhaps the two were in fact one and the same? In any case, for Vogel, The three most subversive aesthetic tendencies of our century—surrealism, expressionism, and dada—are anchored in the reality of a civilization in decline... [Surrealisms aim was] to destroy all censors and to liberate mans libidinal, anarchist, and marvelous impulses from all restraint.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:50:23 +0000
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