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Impressions de la haute Mongolie (Hommage à Raymond Roussel) is a 1976 comedy film directed by Salvador Dalí and José Montes-Baquer, starring Dalí. It is a mockumentary about a hunt through Mongolia for a giant hallucinogenic mushroom. The film is dedicated to Raymond Roussel, author of the similarly titled novel Impressions d’Afrique.
Impressions of Upper Mongolia: Directed by Salvador Dalí, José Montes-Baquer. With Salvador Dalí, Gala Dalí. A tribute to the French writer Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), a forerunner of the Surrealists and much admired by them, who developed a formal system with which to generate literary inspiration out of puns and the narrative references arising from these.
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- Documentary
- Salvador Dalí, José Montes-Baquer
- 1976
So it’s particularly poignant, in the quirkiest of ways, that Dalí chose for his final film project a collaboration with Jose Montes Baquer in 1976 called Impressions of Upper Mongolia (“Impressions de la haute Mongolie”—above with English subtitles), an homage to Roussel’s self-published 1910 nov ...
Jul 24, 2011 · Impressions de la Haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75)If like me you don't read Catalan or speak French here's the perfect opportunity to put ...
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Impressions de la Haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75) If like me you don't speak Catalan or read French here's the perfect opportunity to put...
Impressions of Upper Mongolia - Homage to Raymond Roussel brings together images of the recently opened Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the house at Portlligat and the happening that the genius from the Empordà orchestrated in Granollers in 1974. The structure of the film is also articulated by the music, by the fable invented especially by ...
The genius Spanish painter Salvador Dalí undertakes an amazing journey through the unknown mental territories of Upper Mongolia in search of a giant hallucinogenic mushroom while paying an experimental tribute to the French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), a visionary and eccentric writer, precursor of the surrealists and much admired by them.
