Film 『 Zvenigora 』 ( ＊A ) Directed by Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko ( ＊B ) Release 1928 Starring Nikolai Nademsky Semyon Svashenko Aleksandr Podorozhny ( ＊A ) ■ Zvenigora ( Звени́гора ) was produced under the Soviet Union, so it has b…

■ A close-up of a skull ( 1 ) appears at the end of the opening credits of the film. The significance of this image, which is emphasized just before the story begins, is not only to indicate that the film is a suspense horror film, but als…

■ While "The Seashell and the Clergyman" is categorized as a pioneering surrealist film or a pure film, if Artaud considered "The Seashell and the Clergyman" as a film reflecting his own thought, we can say that "The Seashell and the Clerg…

■ Today, when the film "The Seashell and the Clergyman" is mentioned, it is not so much as a film by Germaine Dulac, but rather as a film for which Antonin Artaud wrote its script. Even if one is not interested in the director of the film,…