Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

(F.W. Murnau, 1927)

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This film was one of the first to feature an abstract and surreal montage sequence as a way of storytelling. It used a combination of models, live action, photographs, animation and clever editing to create this madness of the city, the place for which a 1920's vamp is trying to tempt a married countryman to. The overlaying of imagery as well as the combination of two different pieces of music, creates a wild and almost hysterical short sequence.

Spellbound

(Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)
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The famed “Dream” sequence is truly a view into Dali's paintings, translated into physicality. His collaboration with Hitchcock provides visual references to Un Chien Andalu, specifically with reference to the description of the character dreaming of eyes being sliced through. It's a very specific and surreal visual language that he has.