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

This documentary celebrates Max Ernst, one of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century. The film covers the highlights of Ernst's fascinating career via a format that mirrors the restless reality of his life. An inveterate traveler and always on the move, Ernst lived and worked in Germany, France and America. His nomadic way of life kept him searching: "A painter is lost if he finds himself."

British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth. This film explores her dramatic evolution from British debutante to artist in exile, living out her days in Mexico City, and takes us on a journey into her darkly strange and cinematic world.

a brief documentary about Dorothea Tanning with gothic flourishes

Ulrike Ottinger weaves her personal memories of Parisian bohemianism and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a cinematic “figure poem.”