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The Dream Factory: A Surrealist Art Film Series will continue today with L’Age d’Or (The Golden Age), a 1930 satire by surrealist director Luis Buñuel.
Sponsored by the art department, screenings in the series are introduced by Alastair Noble, assistant professor of art. Films are shown noon-1 p.m. every other Wednesday through Nov. 19 in Williams Center room 108 for the Arts. The screenings finish in time for students to make their 1 p.m. classes.
Buñuel and artist Salvador Dali co-wrote L’Age d’Or, a bizarre, hallucinatory story about a young couple whose desire to be together is constantly thwarted by fanatical bishops and followers of the Marquis de Sade. The film’s perceived blasphemy and immorality led to a theater riot in Paris, where it was banned for the next 59 years. Scenes including a cow landing in a living room, people turning into skeletons, and the young female lead sucking on a statue’s toe.
The rest of the series:
The Dream Factory debuted Sept. 10 with screenings of Un Chien Andalou (The Andalousian Dog) (Buñuel/Dali, 1928) and Land Without Bread (Buñuel, 1932). The next screenings were Three Films of Man Ray (Ray, 1923-1929) on Sept. 24 and Le Coquille el le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) (Dulac/Artaud, 1928) on Oct. 8.