Docs Ireland: Man Ray: Return to Reason 
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The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929, Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L’Étoile de mer and Les Mystères du Château du Dé represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental surrealist technique and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism.
In these films Ray began discovering the limitless possibilities of montage as well as the direct application onto celluloid of objects such as salt, pepper, pins, and thumbtacks. Ray finds subconscious correspondences among seemingly incongruous materials and figures.
In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Le Retour à la raison, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo Sqürl present a newly-recorded drone rock soundtrack. These remarkable films are a wonder to behold, remaining as modern and relevant to contemporary art-making as the moment they were made. 100 years doesn’t seem so long after all.
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