Man Ray: Return to Reason • New Restorations!
Schedule
Fri May 31 2024 at 05:30 pm to 06:40 pm
Location
Brattle Theatre | Cambridge, MA
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New Restorations! Scored by Sqürl!The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929—Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L’Étoile de mer, and Les Mystères du Château du Dé—represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction all suffused with dark eroticism. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Le Retour à la raison, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo Sqürl present MAN RAY: RETURN TO REASON, with a newly-recorded drone rock soundtrack for all four films. – Janus Films
1923-1929 • dir Man Ray • 70 min • DCP
Trailer:
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in the United States in 1890 to
Russian Jewish immigrants, Man Ray is considered a pioneer
of the surrealist and Dada movements, with work spanning
painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Disillusioned
with conventional art and shaped by the trauma of World War I,
along with the emergence of modern media culture, Man Ray
and other Dadaists turned to audacious formal experimentation
to capture an unreasoning world. Though Man Ray is perhaps
best remembered for his striking fashion photography, and the
camera-less pictures he called “rayographs”—photograms made
by positioning objects directly onto photosensitive material,
which he then exposed—his inventive forays into filmmaking
are lesser known. In his silent shorts, Man Ray expanded his
avant-garde techniques to the realm of moving images, playing
with chance and light to fantastic effect.
SQÜRL was formed by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan in 2009
to create some music for Jarmusch’s film The Limits of Control.
In 2013, the group, along with Jozef van Wissem, received the
Cannes Soundtrack Award for Only Lovers Left Alive. SQÜRL has
also composed the scores for two other Jarmusch films, Paterson
(2016) and The Dead Don’t Die (2019). The duo’s debut LP, Silver
Haze, was released on May 5, 2023, via Sacred Bones Records.
“We feel very proud to be Man Ray’s backup band. I think ultimately what we’re trying to do, and what Man Ray did, was create a sort of ecstatic state. A place that exists in a little space between consciousness and unconsciousness, between dream and wakefulness, and between reality and the surreal world.”
—Jim Jarmusch, SQÜRL
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Where is it happening?
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138-3761, United States,Cambridge, MassachusettsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
