| dc.description.abstract | The practical work produced for this PhD study demonstrates filmmaking creativity influenced by a Surrealist world view, ideas and practices, such as utilising dreams, chance, collaboration, altered states of mind, transformations and creating new myths. Since the Surrealist movement eschews the usual strategies of a definition based on style or genre and aims at the alternative realms of reality, this filmmaking project engages with the Surrealist ’intention’ by drawing on sensory experience and connecting imagination through the sense of touch. The seven films that make up the portfolio of practical work for this PhD: Ghosts (2011), Polednice/The Noon Witch (2012), Necropolis: A Walk through the Graveyard (2014), The Secret Life of Moths (2013), Nightmare on a Train (2016), Blackbird (2016) and Mortido (2017), demonstrate that tactile images not only help in expressing Surreality through the personal senses but also invite the imagination of the viewers’ embodied experience. Additionally, the PhD project highlights certain strategies that are often employed by female artists, in engaging with Surrealism from the perspective of the muse, exploring the self in a process of constant evolution, and transforming trauma into new myths towards self-knowledge. The study also proposes Surrealism as a therapeutic avenue to reflect on a missing or uncertain identity or history. | en_GB |
