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Dreams That Money Can Buy
The German artist and Dadaist Hans Richter was a leading theorist and practitioner of abstract film in the 1920s. He later went to the USA, where he made his first feature-length film: for Dreams That Money Can Buy, he had luminaries such as Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger make contributions, which he bundled with a frame story about a man who sells dreams. An extraordinary feat between film noir and artistic abstraction, whose idiosyncratic effect is enhanced by the music of greats such as Paul Bowles, John Cage and Edgar Varese. This neglected masterpiece is framed by two local experimental film greats: the darkroom poetry of Peter Tscherkassky's erotic dream picture Dream Work and the abstract fusion of Dietmar Brehm's Halcion, named after a sleeping pill. (C.H.)
Image: Austrian Film Museum