Abstract
This chapter traces the manifestations of surrealist myth and magic in the surrealist documentary short films L’Invention du monde and Quetzalcoatl, le serpent emplume . The films were made by Jean-Louis Bedouin and Michel Zimbacca, with narratives written by the poet Benjamin Peret. The chapter places the films in relation to the surrealist contribution to the documentary film, and discusses how they bring a surrealist poetics into play with a primitivism reformulated under the influence of surrealism’s search for a new myth and an intensified exchange with surrealism’s non-Western others. Caribbean surrealists, including Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, and the surrealist occultist Pierre Mabille are significant names in this development.
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