The world of reality and dream

Welcome to The Surreal House , which is being displayed in the Barbican Art Gallery, make you into the world of reality and dream.
I love films, which is my direction for future work. Surrealist art in the film is a very important part makes the audience to imagine and put into another world of unusual. So that the exhibition features works of video art film left me a deep image. I really like the two works, such as







Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943.
Maya Deren (1917-1961)
16mm, black & white sound (optical) 15mins.
A classic of American experimental cinema, In one of the most memorable visual transpositions of the surrealist notion of ‘convulsive beauty’ the women ( played by Deren herself) throws a knife at the man whose head becomes a hole on top of his shoulders through which one can gaze at the sea and notice the flying shards of the mirror that the knife had shattered fall on the sand before being washed away by the waves. The viewer is taken on a disquieting journey rendered as the boundary between dream and reality is gradually eroded.

Jabber Wocky, 1971.
Jan Svan Kmajer (b.1934)
35mm, colour, 14mins
Spaceruns through the work of the Czech surrealist film maker, artist and writer Jon SvanKmajer like an obsession. In Jabber Wocky 1971, Lewis Carroll’s miniature nonsense epic, recited at the child’s sensibility- never far from Svankmajer’s sympathy-triumphs over the adult realm of order and Propriety Dollie’s tea parties turn cannibal feasts, malevolent objects have their fun to the rhythm of smacked bottoms and the stifling family home becomes a nest of follies. In the child’s den, no architecture can survive long wooden cities are built and collapse in an instant, while a wall of jigsaw bricks is repeatedly broken down by the film’s ‘live’ star, a black cat.




In addition to the great films of course, there are a lot of painting is also cause for concern. Such as Salvador Dali’s paintings and photography have made me an eye-opener. Some installation art works are also very worth a visit. Will let you has more in-depth understanding of Surrealism “is not a new or easier means of display, nor is it a metaphysic of poetry; it is a means toward the total liberation of the mind and of everything that resembles it …” (Declaration 1925)