Surrealism - Mannequins

Surrealism - Recce

Focus Group

Surrealism Theory

Manifesto of Surrealism

The movement officially began in 1924 with the publication of the first Manifesto of Surrealism, penned by poet and writer André Breton, who became the movement’s titular leader until his death in 1966.

Influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious, the manifesto defined Surrealism as “psychic automatism”, a process that encouraged a freeing of the mind from rational and utilitarian values and constraints as well as moral and aesthetic judgement.

Throughout the 1930s Surrealism became an incredibly diverse international movement, and included the dissident Surrealist faction grouped around George Bataille.

Revolution of the mind

Breton conceived of Surrealism as a revolution of the mind that would fundamentally transform everyday experience. Surrealism was less interested in the irrational for its own sake, than in reconciling the contradictory states of dream and reality into a more potent form of reality – a kind of surrealist consciousness.

The emergence of psychoanalysis and Freud’s theories of the mind offered Surrealism a way to move beyond an empirical, surface apprehension of the world. While Freud was interested in how everyday life informs dreams, the Surrealists experimented with the ways in which our dream world informs everyday experience, including creative practice.

The Surrealists’ exploration of dreams, sexuality and desire through involuntary actions and processes, such as spontaneous or automatic writing and drawing, redirected the significance of the unconscious away from its traditional therapeutic function.

Surrealism Short Film

Our surrealist idea will involve people treating mannequins as humans.

We be shooting for a POV angle.

The start will with people dancing with the mannequins, they will then wave to the camera and continue dancing.

The camera will then head outside and we will see more people with mannequins acting as if they are alive and able to communicate with us. For example, someone holding a mannequin may walk around the corner towards to camera holding a conversation with the mannequin, they would say something and pause as if listening to the mannequin speak and then reply themselves.

Storyboard

Risk Assessment

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