Cal DJs take on films from the PFA Collection, spinning solo or team-tampering with an ever-changing array of silent and silenced works. Join us for this BAM/PFA tradition.
Live Music: UC Berkeley Student DJs
Plus surprise surreal shorts !
(Le sang d’un poète) Surrealism is the art of prefab delirium. The pregnant pause gestates wildly. Dreams intrude on waking life. The sleep of reason triumphs. Surprise. Confusion. Delusion. Totally. Jean Cocteau’s fever dream The Blood of a Poet steps through the mirror of our unconscious and into an inscape of crazed hallucination. Cocteau, who was a painter as well as a filmmaker, denied that The Blood of a Poet was a Surrealist film. But not to worry: by the time our quartet of Cal DJs spins their sonic spell over Cocteau’s irrational reverie, we’ll
be far beyond any state of denial. Steve Seid
Directed, written and narrated by Jean Cocteau. Photographed by Georges Perinal. With Enrique Rivero, Lee Miller, Jean Desbordes. (55 mins, B&W, 16mm, PFA Collection)
Total running time: c. 80 mins
Theater Admission Prices
Single Feature
$5.50 BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley Students
$9.50 Adults (18-64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees
Non-UC Berkeley students
Senior citizens (65 & over)
Disabled persons
Youth (17 & under
Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons
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