Return to Reason
Directed by Man Ray • 2023 • France
The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts—LE RETOUR À LA RAISON, EMAK BAKIA, L’ÉTOILE DE MER, and LES MYSTÈRES DU CHÂTEAU DU DÉ—find the visionary artist experimenting with the limitless possibilities of montage, superimposition, distortion, and even the application of objects directly onto celluloid. Set here to an ethereal score by the Jim Jarmusch–Carter Logan collaboration SQÜRL, these cine-poems are optical carnival rides that surprise, delight, and unsettle with each tantalizing frame.
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Return to Reason
Directed by Man Ray • 2023 • France
The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts—LE RETOUR À LA RAISON, EMAK BAKIA, L’...
Extras
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Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan on RETURN TO REASON
In the following interview, moderated by festival adviser Gina Telaroli for the 2023 New York Film Festival, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and producer Carter Logan, who together form the avant-rock band SQÜRL, discuss director Man Ray and the process of scoring his films.
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Sqürl, Man Ray's Backing Band
Recorded at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in February 2023, this “cine-concert,” directed by Michaël Pierrard, captures the avant-rock band SQÜRL performing a semi- improvised score to Man Ray’s films.
