David Lynch & Hans Richter

[M. Genevieve]

Apparently, David Lynch made some kind of "documentation" for the BBC
or do they mean documentary(?) about Surrealism based on Hans
Richter's "Dreams That Money Can Buy" (1946) in 1987.

Does anybody (AMK poster) in the UK know about this Lynch project? Has
anyone seen it?

Thank you in advance.

Genevieve

P.S. I copied the information below from a David Lynch site.

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Ruth Roses And Revolver 1987
Directed by Helen Gallagher
Written by David Lynch
Presented by David Lynch
Lynch made this documentation (named after a film by Man Ray) on
Surrealism for the British BBC television program Arena. In each
program he presents extracts from what he considers films and
filmmakers most significant to his own work.
Including:

Entr'acte, Rene Claire/ Francis Picabia, 1924
"The greatest influence on my work is the city of Philadelphia. Man
Ray was born in Philadelphia..."

Emak-Bakia, Man Ray, 1926

Vormittagspuck, Hans Richter, 1926
"Things beneath the surface, strange feelings of death, or opposites,
or time...How exciting it must have been to have been a filmmaker in
the early days of cinema, because not only was it so magical to see
paintings begin to move,but they could start altering time..."

Man With A Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, 1929
Lynch quotes Sergei Eisenstein's view of Vertov "a visual hooligan!"

Blood of a Poet, Jean Cocteau, 1930
"Cocteau is the heavyweight of surrealism."

Dreams That Money Can Buy, Hans Richter, 1946
"Films should have a surface story but underneath things should happen
- things should resonate."

The Girl With The Prefabricated Heart, Ferdinand Leger (from Dreams
That Money Can Buy Hans Richter), 1946
"Anything that looks human but isn´t looks frightening."

Discs, Macel Duchamp, based on his own painting "Nude Descending a
Staircase" accompanied by the music of John Cage (included in Dreams
That Money Can Buy Hans Richter), 1946

Desire, Max Ernst (from Dreams That Money Can Buy Hans Richter), 1946
"I'm very happy to be a fellow traveller with any one of these
guys..."

[Alan Andres]

I am in the US not the UK, but I can fill you in on this.

This was an episode of Arena broadcast in early 1987, if I am not
mistaken. Lynch introduces the avant-garde films listed below. Frankly
I thought his commentary a bit simplistic and inarticulate. It seems
this was produced to coincide with the British opening of BLUE VELVET.
Total running time is about 50 minutes.

I have a video copy of the program if anyone is seeking it.

Alan

On 20 Mar 2002 11:38:55 -0800, mgenev...@yahoo.com (M. Genevieve)
wrote:

[M. Genevieve]

Thank you so much for this information. I will be in touch.

Regards,

Genevieve

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