13 minutes of pure psychic chaos that'll haunt your dreams in the best way.
"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I shot with other reference material into a surreal visual collage." - Penny Slinger
Editing
Slinger's cuts weaponize Ernst's own violence against him.
Direction
Thesis as revenge, scholarship as exorcism.
Director
Penny Slinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Slinger made this at 22, part of London's 1960s underground. Her '70s erotic photo-collages got her erased from art history until feminist rediscovery.
Ernst's original collages (1933 novel) already attacked bourgeois morality; Slinger's film attacks Ernst for participating in that same violence against women.
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