The Seashell and the Clergyman

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The Seashell and the Clergyman

The Seashell and the Clergyman

film by Dulac [1928]

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Germaine Dulac
Silent cinema
The second short, The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), is widely considered the first Surrealist film, predating Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s Un Chien Andalou (1929). Dramatist and actor Antonin Artaud, famed for the “theater of cruelty,” wrote the script, about a clergyman’s lust for the wife of…
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The second short, The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), is widely considered the first Surrealist film, predating Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s Un Chien Andalou (1929). Dramatist and actor Antonin Artaud, famed for the “theater of cruelty,” wrote the script, about a clergyman’s lust for the wife of…
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