Film programme Dalí Dalí
Introduction, film screening, Q&A session
In the Cinema/Auditorium at 2 pm
Tickets, SEK 50 per film, can be purchased at ticnet.se. Any remaining tickets will be sold at Moderna Museet on the same day as the event. Reduced admission to Moderna Museet (SEK 60) for film ticket holders.
11 October 2009
Introduced by the film director Jack Bond. In English
Dalí in New York, 1966, 57 min, Digibeta SP
A Jack Bond Film.
The film-maker Jack Bond worked with Dalí during two intense weeks in New York, making this entertaining and humorous film. Performing with a plaster cast, thousands of ants and one million dollars, Salvador Dalí created some unforgettable scenes. The artist’s encounter with the American feminist writer Jane Arden, to whom he was introduced by Jack Bond, gives an insight into Dalí’s outlook on mankind and his sensitive ego.
25 October 2009
Introduced by Catrin Lundqvist, curator, Moderna Museet
In Swedish/English
Destino 1946/2003. Film, 7 min
Dominique Monfery. Animation by John Hench on drawings by Salvador Dalí in collaboration with Roy Disney. Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank
Salvador Dalí made the drawings for Destino for his friend Walt Disney. But it wasn’t until 2003 that Roy Disney finally got it produced for the screen. In this animated dance movie, featuring many symbolic images from Dalí’s oeuvre, two lovers find one another, to the accompaniment of a languorous Mexican love song. This is the first time the film is shown in Sweden!
Spellbound, 1945, Film 110 min. Alfred Hitchcock. The film includes a dream sequence by Salvador Dalí. Swedish subtitles.
Swedish Film Institute, Alfred Hitchcock Trust, Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank
Ingrid Bergman plays the psychoanalyst Dr Petersen who falls in love with a man, played by Gregory Peck. She finds an explanation to his guilt complex in Sigmund Freud’s theories on dream interpretation and the Oedipus complex. Hitchcock asked Salvador Dalí to design the famous dream sequence that is then interpreted by Dr Petersen.
8 November 2009
Introduced by the film director José Montes-Baquer.
In English/Spanish
Impressions de la Haute Mongolie. Hommage à Raymond Roussel, 1975
Beta SP, 58 min. Dalí/Montes-Baquer. In French, no subtitles.
Polyphon Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft mbH
This is a collage of music, images and Dalí’s voiceover. In the search of enormous mushrooms we are drawn into Dalí’s surrealist perspective on art and life. Contradictory to its name, the film was shot in Spain, and takes us to the Dalí Museum in Figueres that had just opened. The film is a tribute to Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), an author Dalí admired. This is an exciting work and is worth seeing even if you don’t understand French.
6 December 2009
Introduced by Anneè Olofsson, artist
In Swedish/English
Un Chien andalou, 1929. 16 mm film, 16 min, Dalí/Buñuel Moderna Museet. Silent movie
Contemporary Films, London. Image Rights of Salvador Dalí reserved. Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2009.
80 years ago, in 1929, the now classic film Un Chien Andalou – The Andalusian Dog – opened in Paris. It had taken the two friends Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí a mere six days to write the script for what was to be the first surrealist film. Time has lost its linearity in this work that, despite its title, does not feature a dog. Instead, the narrative is held together by the complex desire between man and woman. In a macabre scene where a man drags two grand pianos behind him, on which the carcasses of two asses are placed, Dalí appears as one of the two Catholic priests who are tied to the pianos and dragged across the floor. He is easy to distinguish on account of his staring eyes.
L’âge d’or, 1930. 16 mm film, 63 min. Dalí/Bunuel.
Moderna Museet.
Contemporary Films, London
This film provoked violent reactions and had to be removed from the bill a week after it opened in Paris in autumn 1930. It’s political tone, with the text “Foundation of Rome” that appears in one of the scenes at the beginning of the film, is intended to parody the emerging Italian fascism. The dark and aggressive scenes are interpolated with a story of love, passion and desire. The most intimate, and most famous, scene shows the female lead character sucking the toes of a sculpture.
17 January 2010
Introduced by the film-makers Marie-Dominique Montel and Christopher Jones
In English
Le cinéma selon Dalí, 2009, 52 min, Digibeta SP. Montel/Jones.
Engelsk titel: Film according to Dalí. English subtitles.
Producer: Hikari Groupe
A recent film from France. Salvador Dalí developed his own paranoiac critical method, featuring image metamorphoses as a central ingredient. He applied this method in all his art, and it was also highly expedient in film-making, where it is easy to superimpose images. We are treated to samples from many of the film projects in which Dalí participated, and the film-makers give us an insight into the artist’s work methods. The film also features several interesting interviews with people who were close to Dalí, including the photographer Robert Descharnes and the artiste Amanda Lear.
Film Programme in the exhibition
The film programme lasts for approximately 6o minutes and restarts on the hour.
Greed, The New Fragrance by Francesco Vezzoli, 2009, 1 min.
Chocolat Lanvin, 1970, 16 sec.
Impressions de la Haute Mongolie. Hommage à Raymond Roussel, 1975. 5 min extract from 58 min.
Director: José Montes-Baquer. Concept: Salvador Dalí.
Arena: Salvador Dalí, 1986, 1 min 52 sec.
Alfred Hitchcock on Spellbound (1946) and his collaboration with Dalí.
Destino, 1946/2003, 6 min 45 sec.
Dominique Monfery. Animations by John Hench based on drawings by Salvador Dalí with Walt Disney. Shown here for the first time in Sweden!
Greed, The New Fragrance by Francesco Vezzoli, 2009, 1 min.
Un Chien Andalou, 1929, 17 min. Salvador Dalí/Luis Buñuel.
Dalí/Donald Milner, 1959, 1 min, 5 sec.
Dalí arrives at Victoria Station in London. The journalist Donald Milner asks the artist to describe himself.
Film: Dalí, 1963, 2 min 5 sec.
Dalí signs books in New York. His wife Gala is by his side. He explains that painting is merely a small part of his genius.
Mike Wallace Remembers, 1958, 30 sec
Dalí declares that he is immortal!
Chaos and Creation, 1960, 16 min, 54 sec.
Salvador Dalí/Philippe Halsman
Producer: Catrin Lundqvist
Editing: Stefan Wrenfelt
