Modern Surrealism.

Although we are fixated on this idea of producing our film in the image of 'old' surrealism and techniques, I thought it would be important to compare these to the modern day surrealist films we see, then to identify the coherent themes throughout both eras of surrealism?

This film below, is a montage of modern surrealism, made by Asylum SFX studio. Using clips from their TV and feature film work, they wove an interesting, thought provoking and emotionally moving artistic statement. I think that the ideas of old surrealism do come through in this video, through strange objects being associated together which seems un-normal. My favourite bit is at 3 mins and 31 seconds, the metaphorical idea of being born and then the idea of flight through to your death is brilliant! ...and the visuals for it are excellent! The uncomfortable feeling we get when watching this man in high speed is like the first bit of our film. What makes it modern is the colours and clearness of footage.

I thought the film below was really interesting as it's a recurring dream that somebody kept having...