PCL linkdump has a trailer (listen to those drums) from the 1978 film Don and via Greencine comes the Google video of Man Ray and Hans Richter’s Dreams that Money Can Buy.
More on Dreams and the people who made a new soundtrack for it:
“This is a Story of Dreams mixed with Reality”.
When Marek first showed me Hans Richter’s film ‘Dreams that Money Can Buy” as a potential project, I knew from this introductory salvo that I was in. It’s a difficult, deeply flawed film in many ways but it is also remarkable, extraordinary, ground-breaking, massively influential, comic and poignant in turns. It says things about Surrealism, film, art, the American Dream, dreaming in general and the emergence of therapy-practitioners as the new priestly elite, that hadn’t been said before – and possibly haven’t since. It captures the mysterious, confusing, meaningless-meaningfulness of Dreaming in a way that few films have – apart from perhaps David Lynch’s work – and it’s obviously no coincidence that Lynch himself has declared it as a major influence. —theclerkenwellkid
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) – Man Ray, Hans Richter
I wrote this summary on Wikipedia, feel free to contribute:
Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.
Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger.
It won a special prize at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.
See also: surrealism in film