Film
A Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 1
Thursday, July 1, 2010
7 p.m.
Additional Info
Dreams That Money Can Buy
Hans Richter, 1946, 96 min., 16mm
Support for A Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films is provided by the Susan Wildberg Morgenstein Fund.
Image: Hans Richter, Dreams That Money Can Buy (still), 1947; photo: courtesy Films International of America/Photofest; © Films International of America
It took Richter three years to complete Dreams That Money Can Buy while teaching at the Institute of Film Techniques at the City College of New York. The result is a blockbuster of experimental film. Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, and Man Ray join Richter in presenting a series of dreamscapes investigating wishfulfillment.