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BRITAIN IN THE 20S (HISTORY OF AVANT-GARDE) (1920)
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The collection opens with Len Lye's modernist abstraction ‘Tusalava’, which, heavily influenced by Maori and Aboriginal art, shares an interest in ‘primitive’ cultures that was typical of the Modernist movement of the time. It was almost refused a certificate by the puzzled British Board of Censors who suspected that the dancing abstract shapes might be about sex. Lye's own explanation was that it showed the beginnings of organic life.
‘Crossing the Great Sagrada’, is a lowbrow spoof on travel
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SPELLBOUND (HITCHCOCK) (1945)
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Psychiatrist Bergman falls in love with the new head of the asylum, and discovers that he is in fact an impostor suffering from severe guilt trauma. The drama develops as she digs deeper into his labyrinthian mind. Artist Salvador Dali adds surrealist sequences to this maze-like thriller.
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THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)
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Bergman's fascinating and acclaimed allegorical search for a meaning for human existance. A disillusioned soldier returns from the Crusades to find plague ravaging Europe. Death arrives in person to take his soul, but by beating him at chess he earns a reprieve. Repressive, dark, medieval and superb!
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