Starting on 20 August 2025, the Cinema Surreal programme at the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg is presenting surreal films with psychological themes. One point of inspiration was the recent 150th anniversary of Swiss psychiatrist and dream researcher C. G. Jung’s birthday on 26 July 2025. Cinema Surreal will screen films Wednesdays at 6 pm every two weeks until 17 December 2025. Free admission.
Surrealism emerges when dreams mix with reality, wrote André Breton in the first Surrealist Manifesto. In eight films (every 14 days on Wednesdays), the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg explores how surrealism arises in the human psyche:
The series kicks off on 20 August 2025, with a 1919 American silent comedy in which a mad psychology professor attempts to manipulate a student: When the Clouds Roll By (original English version).
On 10 September 2025, Alfred Hitchcock’s I Fight for You / Ich kämpfe um dich (screened in the German synchronisation) depicts murderous entanglements at a psychiatric hospital.
Surrealist Hans Richter’s Dreams That Money Can Buy (original English version) will be shown on 24 September 2025. The feature film encompasses six episodes by six fellow artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, and Fernand Léger.
The Trip / Der Trip by Roger Corman, featuring Peter Fonda, is a wild ride through a drug-riddled brain during the 1960s (8 October 2025, screened in the German synchronisation). It is followed by the classic Naked Lunch (22 October 2025, screened in the German synchronisation) and Being John Malkovich (5 November 2025, screened in the German synchronisation).
The series nears its end on 19 November 2025 with Citizen Dog (original with English subtitles), a turbulent surreal film from Thailand, and closes on 17 December 2025 with Cleo (original German version), a charming comedy from Berlin, produced exactly 100 years after When the Clouds Roll By.
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