Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris (1978)

Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

1978

Documentary

Synopsis

There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand racial difference. At first, the other or "primitive" was the opposite of the bourgeois subject. In this documentary, Sarah Maldoror interviews one of the most influential surrealist poets from the former surrealism, while at the same time we witness the movement's anachronist views regarding the affirmation of other identities.

Credits

Director

Sarah Maldoror