Man Ray’s Surrealist Cinema: Watch 4 Pioneering Movies From the Twenties

Man Ray was one of many lead­ing artists of the avant-garde of Twenties and Thirties Paris. A key fig­ure within the Dada and Sur­re­al­ist transfer­ments, his works spanned var­i­ous media, includ­ing movie. He was a lead­ing expo­nent of the Ciné­ma Pur, or “Pure Cin­e­ma,” which reject­ed such “bour­geois” con­ceits as char­ac­ter, set­ting, and plot. Immediately…