2023 - 68th Edition
Memory and utopia

RETURN TO REASON

Man Ray
France
 - 1923

In 1923, Man Ray improvises his first film. This movie, boldly surrealist, is called ‘Return to Reason’. Subsequently, he renews the experience with ‘Emak Bakia’ (1926), ‘The Starfish’ (1928) and ‘The Mysteries of the Château of Dice’ (1929). In 2023, Jim Jarmush and Carter Logan, the founding members of the group Sqürl, compose a soundtrack to the four films as if they were forming one unique piece. ‘Return To Reason’ celebrates the 100th anniversary of Man Ray’s cinematic oeuvre, restored for the first time in 4K. It reveals the unique dialogue between two multitalented artists, and creates an undefinable object, a piece of visual music that resonates through its modernity and poetry.

Man Ray

Born in 1890 in the United States to Jewish Immigrants from Russia, Man Ray is considered a pioneer of the Surrealist movement, with his work spanning painting, sculpture, photography and filmmaking. Disillusioned with traditional art and shaped by the trauma of World War I along with the emergence of a modern media culture, Man Ray and other Dada artists turned to experimentation. Man Ray is perhaps most remembered for his pioneering fashion photography, and camera-less pictures he called ‘Rayographs’, but few are familiar with his work in film. In his silent films, he extended his experimentation with photography to the moving image, playing with chance and light.

DIRECTOR
Man Ray
SCREENPLAY
Man Ray
EDITOR
Man Ray
MUSIC
Sqürl ( Jim Jarmush, Carter Logan)
PRODUCTION
Marieke Tricoire, Julie Viez
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Womanray, Cinenovo
CAST
Kiki de Montparnasse
RUNNING TIME
70 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
blanco y negro
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
1923
VERSION
French intertitles with Spanish subtitles
COUNTRY
France
CONTACT
Film Constellation
IN SPAIN
Restoration by L’Immagine Ritrovata, in partnership with the Cineteca di Bologna, La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, and the French CNC

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