Max Ernst Movies

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are...

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve...

Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst.

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by...

A surreal film about surrealism.

This documentary celebrates Max Ernst, one of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century. The film covers the highlights of...

Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize...

Max Ernst on amateur astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel.

An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.

Once upon a time there was a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...

A film about and with Max Ernst.

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I...