The thesis explores the surrealist movement in the field of film. People use the word surrealistic to describe things that are not real or too weird to be true. However, surrealism was not just an artistic direction, it was about philosophy, politics and revolution. Surrealism was a movement, a group of people who were focused on the world of dreams to bring about a new reality, that would surpass the real and the surreal.
To understand the concept of surrealism, we must understand the circumstances that led to its emergence. The events of World War I that changed everything that people knew until then, the DADA group that made art through which they displayed resistance to the situation in bourgeois society, the events of World War II and the important personalities who took care of the emergence of surrealism. These are all extremely important factors leading to the form of surrealism that is known today.
During the period of Surrealism, two different ways of creating art were developed. Methods that were used by the Surrealists to render their subconscious were veristic surrealism and automatism.
Using fantasy and dream imagery, artists created works in a variety of media, revealing their inner thoughts in an eccentric, symbolic way, discovering anxiety and treating it analytically through visual means. Beside film, important mediums for artistic expression in Surrealism are also painting, photography, literature and sculpture.
Surrealism was the first literary and artistic movement to make a serious connection with cinema. Surrealist artists were interested in film as a medium of expression. Film gave them the opportunity to challenge and draw the boundaries between fantasy and reality, especially with space and time. Like a dream they wanted to realize, film had no boundaries or rules.
In the analysis of surrealist films, we find out their composition and topics, which help us to create the practical part of the thesis.
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