Dreams That Money Can Buy
Cibelle will be performing with The Real Tuesday Weld new dark and decadent Live Music Premiere Film Score to Hans Richter‘s 1946 American Freudian Surrealist Drama: "Dreams That Money Can Buy", a film by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Fernand Leger.
"Are you a dream dealer? I will sell one to you, for I have so many, you see.”
REALITY & THE NATIONAL FILM THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENT 21st CENTURY PSYCHOANALYTICAL CABARET WITH THE REAL TUESDAY WELD LIVE ON STAGE - INTRODUCED BY PEEP SHOW NABOB DAVID PIPER AND HIS BURLESQUE BEAUTIES - PERFORMING THEIR NEW DARK AND DECADENT LIVE MUSIC PREMIERE FILM SCORE TO HANS RICHTER’S 1946 AMERICAN FREUDIAN SURREALIST DRAMA: “DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY” .
PRODUCED BY MAREK PYTEL
NATIONAL FILM THEATRE. SOUTH BANK
SATURDAY 30th APRIL 2005. 8.45 pm
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Surrealist painter and Dada film-theorist Hans Richter wrote, produced, and directed the experimental exercise Dreams That Money Can Buy, one of the most significant contributions to the 20th-century “avant garde” movement.
The project began in 1944, while Richter was director of the Institute of Film Techniques at City College in New York. Combining short scenarios written by world-renowned artists Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamps, Man Ray, Alexander Calder and Fernand Leger, Richter came up with a full-colour, feature-length study in dreamlike “wish fulfilment.”
The film’s only nod to continuity is the presence of a self-styled heavenly psychiatrist, whose patients purportedly visualize the images which play across the screen. Described by one observer as “surreal yet somewhat Jungian,” Dreams That Money Can Buy cost $25,000 and was three years in the making.
Its New York premiere was greeted with a mixture of bravos and bewilderment, especially when the projectionist elected to show the film on the wall and ceiling rather than the screen.
Dreams That Money Can Buy won a special prize at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.