Dreams that money can buy

Duration: 80

Genre: experimental

Year Published: 1947

Creator: Museum of Modern Art

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Jack Bittner

Description: Probably the first feature-length avant-garde film produced in America. The film is an omnibus work in which seven dreams are offered for sale by Joe a poet with a fertile imagination. The dreams are tailored to the unconscious of seven different people; each dream episode is shaped by one of the contributing visual artists. Vignettes include: 1)Desire by Max Ernst; music Paul Bowles; 2)The girl with the prefabricated heart by Fernand Léger; 3)Ruth, roses and revolvers by Man Ray; music, Darius Milhaud; 4)Discs by Marcel Duchamp; music by John Cage; 5 & 6)Circus and Ballets by Alexander Calder; music by David Diamond; 7)Narcissus by Hans Richter; music by Louis Applebaum.

Each of the seven surreal dream sequences in the diegesis is in fact the creation of a contemporary avant-garde and/or surrealist artist, as follows: Song Lyrics John Latouche sung by Libby Holman and Josh White, accompanied by Norma Cazanjian and Doris Okerson. Music is by Holman with refrain of "untouched by human hands"

Complete Record: Probably the first feature-length avant-garde film produced in America. The film is an omnibus work in which seven dreams are offered for sale by Joe a poet with a fertile imagination. The dreams are tailored to the unconscious of seven different people; each dream episode is shaped by one of the contributing visual artists. Vignettes include: 1)Desire by Max Ernst; music Paul Bowles; 2)The girl with the prefabricated heart by Fernand Léger; 3)Ruth, roses and revolvers by Man Ray; music, Darius Milhaud; 4)Discs by Marcel Duchamp; music by John Cage; 5 & 6)Circus and Ballets by Alexander Calder; music by David Diamond; 7)Narcissus by Hans Richter; music by Louis Applebaum.

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