SURREALISM

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In 1924 the world's most unusual art movement was begun - SURREALISM. This rare documentary explains the remarkable people, events, and thinking that created Surrealism. The Seattle Avant Garde filmmaker Karl Krogsad asks, "So what is so 'Surreal' about SURREALSIM?" His new documentary catches the answer. Krogstad's grand attempt to explain the concepts and aesthetics behind the great art movement, through dizzying interviews, mind bending film clips and bizarre re-enactment's. In the history of modern art the Surrealist movement seems at once the most familiar and the most elusive chapter. The antics of the "Surrealists" have passed into legend. SURREALISM the documentary recreates these antics and explains what they meant.

"I have made use of a certain number of secrets which give me assurance and protect the film from being depossessed. The film is a sustained effort on the part of the filmmaker to see himself in his integrity. The Avant-Garde often runs rather than walks. My film skips. In this film there is no search for security. It is the work of my angles." ...Karl Krogstad 1993.

Written, Produced and Directed by Karl Krogstad
Music by Kevin Hay
Executive Producer R. Stanley Dollar
Cinematography by David Crowther and Heather Oaksen

AWARDS: Athens and Olympia Film Festivals

BRIEF BIO:
The charismatic filmmaker is best known to Seattle residents as the only motion picture director ever sued by the City of Seattle for postering. With a year battling the criminal court system finally the judges dropped all charges against Mr. Krogstad stating that the city's claim was frivolous. Since then filmmaker Krogstad has made four films keeping himself out of jail by not postering public buildings with the hundreds of giant sized advertisements known as his calling card. Krogstad's publicity is unusual. So are his films. Thought by many to be the leader of independent filmmaking in the Northwest, Mr. Krogstad can boast of producing more than 50 films, having won awards in almost every major film festival in the world.

BROADCAST:
Internews - USA
Chinese Television Network - CHINA
Tevel Israel Int. Communications - ISRAEL
Open University of Israel - ISRAEL
NRK - Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. - NORWAY
T.M. International - JAPAN
Horizon PlanetIQ - SINGAPORE

Recommended for artists, art historians, collectors, movie buffs, all teaching facilities and personal home video collections.

Videos are available for broadcast rights, universities, libraries and as home videos. DVD with companion piece STAINED GLASS MASTERS - A Krogstad two for one speacial - $35.