Dreams That Money Can Buy

Aroview: A luckless artist who sets up business as a merchant of dreams is the plot device that allows the cream of European Avant-Garde - Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Alexander Calder - to contribute short film works for Dadaist contemporary, Hans Richter. Like so many true originals, this melange of surrealist experiment and B-movie thriller was dismissed at the time of release, but is fascinating in retrospect.

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