Hans Richter

Hans Richter. Dreams that money can buy 1947

Dreams that money can buy is an American experimental film written, produced and directed by surrealist artist and filmmaker Hans Richter, released in 1947.
Several artists contributed to this film: Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger. The film won the award for most original contribution to the progress of cinematography at the Venice International Film Festival in 1947.

Joe/Narcissus (Jack Bittner) is an ordinary man who has just signed a contract to rent a room. As he wonders how he is going to pay the rent, he realizes that he can see the contents of his own brain unfolding by staring into his eyes in a mirror. He then realizes that he can apply this gift to others and creates a company where he will sell his clients (frustrated and neurotic of all kinds) tailor-made dreams based on what he was able to discover about their minds. The waiting room is crowded from the first day of its activity.

Each of the film’s seven dream sequences is actually the creation of an avant-garde artist

Marcel Duchamp

Cover for the magazine « Le Surréalisme, même  » which represents an inverted photograph of the molding of « Female fig leaf » from Marcel Duchamp 1956. Concave parts become convex and vice versa. Marcel Duchamp plays here with the male/female opposition, convex/concav

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. Paysage fautif 1946. Painting sent to Maria Martins and painted with his sperm and insists that creativity is always onanic, a way of stroking one’s pride

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. Plastic study for Given (Étant donné) 1949

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. Please touch, cover design for the Surréalisme 1947

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. Study for Given 1949

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. Given. 1) The Waterfall, 2) The illuminating gas (Etant Donnés) 1946-1966. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Marcel Duchamp. Given. 1) The Waterfall, 2) The illuminating gas (Etant Donnés) 1946-1966. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Marcel Duchamp. Given. 1) The Waterfall, 2) The illuminating gas (Etant Donnés) 1946-1966. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Marcel Duchamp. Given. 1) The Waterfall, 2) The illuminating gas (Etant Donnés) 1946-1966. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. The bec auer 1968

Marcel Duchamp. The bec auer 1968

Marcel Duchamp. The bec auer 1968

Marcel Duchamp. The bec auer 1968

André Breton et Marcel Duchamp

Couverture pour l'Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp 1947. Via bibliorare

Couverture pour l’Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp 1947. Via bibliorare