‘Return To Reason - Man Ray’

In 1923, Man Ray improvised his first film. This resolutely surrealist work was entitled Le Retour à la raison. He would later repeat the experience with Emak Bakia in 1926, L'Étoile de mer in 1928, and Les Mystères du château in 1929.

In 2023, Jim Jarmush and Carter Logan, founders of the band Sqürl, composed a soundtrack for these four films as if they were one.

Return To Reason, for the first time restored in 4K, celebrates the centenary of Man Ray's cinematographic work. It also reveals the unprecedented dialogue between two multidisciplinary artists, and composes an unidentified object, a visual piece of music that touches with its modernity and poetry. The movie was shown as part of the Cannes festival’s ‘Cannes Classic’ selection.

The screening will be introduced by Gérald Duchaussoy, who has been in charge of the Cannes Classics section (restored film classics, documentaries about cinema, movies on the beach, masterclasses) at the Festival de Cannes and in charge of programming at the International Classic Film Market (MIFC) at the festival Lumière in Lyon.

This screening takes place as part of the 100th anniversary of Surrealism. It was in 1924 that André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto, initiating an artistic and philosophical movement that would have a lasting impact on the 20th century.