Friday 8 June 2007, 19.00
and Sunday 29 July 2007, 15.00
Spellbound
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Salvador Dalí on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, 1945
courtesy BFI © Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, DACS, London 2007 |
Psychoanalysis and Freudian thought enjoyed a substantial vogue in 1940s Hollywood, and Spellbound was the first major motion picture to focus on the subject. Nominated for an Academy Award, and starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, Hitchcock’s oedipal romantic thriller is set in a psychiatric hospital and famously features a trippy dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí. In a blatant reference to Un Chien andalou, an oversized pair of scissors cuts through an eye painted on a curtain, heightening the Freudian division between physical and psychic states.
Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1946, 111 min
With support from the Catalan Tourist Board
Print courtesy the British Film Institute as part of the bfi & Tate partnership.
Print courtesy the British Film Institute as part of the bfi & Tate partnership.
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
This event is related to the Dalí at Tate Modern exhibition
