The only documentary where melting clocks and Freud throw hands in a dream sequence.
A documentary analyzing the surrealist elements of the film Spellbound, and the work made by Salvador Dalí in that film.
Direction
Van Eyssen unpacks studio interference with scalpel precision.
Practical Effects
Dalí's actual painted dream sequences, not what Hitchcock used.
Editing
Smart juxtaposition of archive vs. surviving artwork.
Director
Lisa Van Eyssen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dalí originally designed a twenty-minute dream sequence; only two minutes survived Selznick's editing. FREE
The documentary reveals how studio systems routinely crushed avant-garde visionaries for 'accessibility.' LIGHT
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