The Sixteenth Bath Film Festival

Dreams That Money Can Buy

Hans Richter - Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker - was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. In 1944 he assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators of Dreams That Money Can Buy, his most ambitious attempt to bring the work of the European avant-garde to a wider cinema audience.

Joe, a young man down on his luck, discovers he has the power to create dreams, and sets up a business selling them to others. The ‘dreams’ are the creations of Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder and Richter himself, and the result is by turns playful, hypnotic, satirical, charming and nightmarish. The film’s New York premiere was greeted with a mixture of bravos and bewilderment, especially when the projectionist elected to show the film on the wall and ceiling rather than the screen.

To accompany the film we bring to Bath London-based pop-art-pop band The Real Tuesday Weld, with guests Brazilian chanteuse Cibelle and English alchemist David Piper. Produced by Marek Pytel (Reality Film), the live performance of the soundtrackto- film has this year been performed at a sellout screening of the film in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, with further UK performances to be announced in 2007.

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