Patrizia Lombardo

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6.30pm |Tuesday 6 November 2001 
Starr Auditorium, The Tate Modern, Bankside, London

Speaker
Patrizia Lombardo,University of Geneva

Surrealist writers and artists knew the power of images to arouse a range of emotions: nostalgia, fear, surprise, joy, melancholy. Patrizia Lombardo looks at how the flux of images typical of the cinema affects our emotional responses. More surrealist than the surrealists, David Lynch, in his film Lost Highway (1997, 135’), accelerates the rhythm of our feelings to the point of audio-visual hallucination. A screening of Lost Highway follows the talk.

Surrealism and Film
The Forum and Tate Modern will be running a series of three lectures with films to accompany a major Tate Modern exhibition, Surrealism: Desire Unbound. The series will explore philosophical approaches to film that supplement or challenge orthodox film theory.
Tickets costs £6 (£3 concessions) from Tate Modern Ticketing