Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth

Kristoffer Noheden is a researcher in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Artist-Magician as Filmmaker: Wilhelm Freddie’s Films and the New Myth.- 3. Initiation into the New Myth: Primitivism and Poetics in the Surrealist Documentary Film.- 4. Surrealism Is What Will Be: Nelly Kaplan’s Myths of Revenge.- 5. Magic Art and Minor Myths: Jan Švankmajer’s Transmutation of Material Reality.- Concluding Remarks.