Dreams that money can buy

Duration: 80

Year Published: 1947

Creator: Museum of Modern Art

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

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.

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.