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Thursday, Apr 12, 2012
7:30 pm
The Blood of a Poet
Plus surprise surreal shorts!
(Le sang d'un poète) Surrealism is the art of prefab delirium. The pregnant pause gestates wildly. Dreams intrude on waking life. The sleep of reason triumphs. Surprise. Confusion. Delusion. Totally. Jean Cocteau's fever dream The Blood of a Poet steps through the mirror of our unconscious and into an inscape of crazed hallucination. Cocteau, who was a painter as well as a filmmaker, denied that The Blood of a Poet was a Surrealist film. But not to worry: by the time our quartet of Cal DJs spins their sonic spell over Cocteau's irrational reverie, we'll be far beyond any state of denial.
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