HELLO DALI! THE SALVADOR DALI SUPER SURREAL BIRTHDAY BASH!

Tuesday, May 11th at 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $8.00 general; $6.00 Loft members

We're celebrating the late Salvador Dali's 106th birthday (born May 11th, 1904) with a SUPER SURREAL BIRTHDAY BASH, featuring rare 35mm screenings of his classic, shocking and downright amazing collaborations with filmmaker Luis Buñuel, UN CHIEN ANDALOU / An Andalusian Dog (1929) and L'AGE D'OR / The Golden Age (1930), assorted surreal cinematic surprises, Dali-inspired birthday cake, free fake mustaches and more!
PLUS: enter our free Dali raffle and you just might win a super surreal birthday present all for yourself!

UN CHIEN ANDALOU (An Andalusian Dog) / 1929 / silent / 16 mins. / written by Salvador Dali, directed by Luis Buñuel / 35mm
The first of Dali's two collaborations with Spanish director Luis Buñuel, this surrealistic masterpiece was written over the course of a three-day exchange of fantasies and dreams between the two ideosyncratic artists and contains what is, perhaps, one of the most memorably disturbing scenes in film history: a razor blade slicing an eyeball. Made in 1929, it aimed to shock and agitate rather than please its audience and soon became a film classic, one of the most famous collisions of cinema and surrealism the world has ever seen.
"Our only rule was very simple: no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." - Luis Buñuel on UN CHIEN ANDALOU

L'AGE D'OR (The Golden Age) / 1930 / French with English subtitles / 60 mins. / written by Salvador Dali, directed by Luis Buñuel / 35mm
Poetic, absurd, erotic, visionary and scandalous, L'AGE D'OR can still "provoke, baffle and delight" (The New York Times) eighty years after its creation. "Contriving effronteries so offhanded you can't believe you've actually seen them" (The Village Voice), L'AGE D'OR showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Buñuel at its beginning and the celebrated surrealism of Salvador Dali at its peak.
In 1930, following their short film triumph UN CHIEN ANDALOU, Buñuel and Dali created an hour long avant-garde tour de force that's both an aesthetic avalanche of boldness and a withering attack on a society that elevates pious morality over sexual freedom. As scorpions battle, partisans (led by famed surrealist painter Max Ernst) stumble and the forces of middle-class righteousness repeatedly interrupt two neurotic lovers, L'AGE D'OR delivers a gleeful fever dream of Freudian unease, bizarre humor and shocking imagery that once experienced cannot be forgotten.
Skewering everything from Catholic piety to sexual fetishism, the film provoked riots, was denounced by Mussolini's ambassador, earned its backer a threat of excommunication and was banned by the French Police all within two weeks of its release.