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
Victor Brauner. Photomontage 1936, illustrant le livre de Saşa Pană The sadism of truth.De gauche à droite René Grevel, Léo Malet, Victor Brauner, Georges Hugnet, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Benjamin Peret, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Jean, Oscar Dominguez, Maurice Henri, and Jack Herold Via jewishnationalmuseum
De la femme 100 têtes. Adaptation libre et partielle de 1968 de l’oeuvre de Max Ernst Producteur : S Sandoz, Vidéoscience Adaptation libre et partielle de l’oeuvre de Max Ernst Avec la voix de Jean Servais Réalisation : Eric Duvivier Assistant réalisateur : Eric Luzuy Images : Pierre Fournier Décors : Jean Caullou, Philippe Sevin