The film series organized in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 continues: from 21 May to 17 December 2025, 14 films will be shown fortnightly in the “Cinema Surreal”, each Wednesday at 6 pm. Admission is free.
“I believe in the future resolution of these seemingly contradictory states of dream and reality in a kind of absolute reality,” wrote André Breton in the First Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924.
The “Cinema Surreal” in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection shows films in which this “absolute reality” can be experienced: Imagination and reality come close together and provide the necessary fuel to arrive at new, “supra-real” …
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Image above: Cinema Surreal am 21.5.2025: Alraune, Arthur Maria Rabenalt, D 1952, © bpk / Hanns Hubmann.