Friday 18 January 2008, 19.30

Cinema has flirted with the fantastic since its origins, but the most potent and penetrating explorations of the unfathomable world of the unconscious can be found in artists’ work. Essentials: Dreams collects together the mythic, the nightmarish and the psychedelic to present pioneering artists’ wondrous visions revealing cinema in all its magical intensity. Featuring celebrated work by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Lawrence Jordan, Jan Svankmajer, and Suzan Pitt. Curated and presented by George Clark.

Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel / Salvador Dalí, France, 1929
Les Jeux des Anges, Walerian Borowczyk, Poland, 1964
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, USA, 1943
Dimensions of Dialogue, Jan Svankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1982
Asparagus, Suzan Pitt, USA, 1974-78
Our Lady of the Sphere, Lawrence Jordan, USA, 1969

Programme duration 86 min. Programme content is still liable to change.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended