Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Born: May 11, 1904
Died: January 23, 1989
in Figueres, Girona, Catalunya, Spain
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi]), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem and to the irritation of his critics.

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Donyale Luna: Supermodel
Title: Donyale Luna: Supermodel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Explores the remarkable life and career of Donyale Luna, one of the first Black supermodels who graced the covers of both Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar in Europe.
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
Title: L'Âge d'or de la pub
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: Movie
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Mike Wallace Is Here
Title: Mike Wallace Is Here
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: Movie
For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
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The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Title: The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Character: Self - Painter (archive footage)
Released: April 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.
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Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Title: Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Character: Himself
Released: March 3, 2019
Type: Movie
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Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality
Title: Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: April 17, 2018
Type: Movie
The documentary proposes an exhaustive journey through the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and also of Gala, his muse and collaborator. It starts in 1929, a crucial year in Dalí's career and life, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and advances until the year of the artist's death in 1989.
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Title: Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s.
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Dali's Greatest Secret
Title: Dali's Greatest Secret
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
History - Revealing, touching and puzzling, Dali's Greatest Secret takes us on the spiritual journey of history's greatest surrealist artist. - Glen Baggerly, Eddie Eagle, Christy Lynn
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Title: Jodorowsky's Dune
Character: Self (Archival Footage)
Released: August 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
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Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
Title: Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: October 30, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of the unlikely alliance between two of the most renowned innovators of the twentieth century: brilliantly eccentric Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and American entertainment innovator Walt Disney.
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Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Title: Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and Paris for the past fifty years. The film describes the various influences in her life and how she came to cultivate a style that merges the western surrealism with eastern mysticism
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Dalí Oster Newsreel
Title: Dalí Oster Newsreel
Character: himself
Released: November 11, 2006
Type: Movie
This was filmed on January 24, 1964, during Prof. Oster’s demonstration of moiré patterns. He is shown with Salvador Dalí.
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Salvador Dalí at Work
Title: Salvador Dalí at Work
Character: Himself
Released: November 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.
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Filmmakers in Action
Title: Filmmakers in Action
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Title: Who Gets to Call It Art?
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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The Dali Dimension
Title: The Dali Dimension
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Retrace Salvador Dalí’s obsession for science, which lasted his entire life. This can be seen in his paintings, which reflect every major discovery of the 20th Century. Even his signature is directly influenced by a scientific image.
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Gala
Title: Gala
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 4, 2003
Type: Movie
Tour of the life of Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova Gala from Kazan Russia, where she was born, to Davos, where she met Paul Éluard, and continues in Paris and New York down to Cadaqués, where she died.
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The End of a Mystery
Title: The End of a Mystery
Released: January 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.
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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Title: Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. This film includes a look into his inner circle and examines both his artistic and personal impact on society. From day-glo Marilyns and Elvises to Campbell's Soup cans to the groovy 1960s and '70s, step into the limelight of the Warhol world.
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Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Title: Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).
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The Shock of the New
Title: The Shock of the New
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 1980
Type: Movie
A definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by critic Robert Hughes.
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Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Title: Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Character: Himself
Released: December 29, 1979
Type: Movie
A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.
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Title: Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 24, 1978
Type: TV
Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.
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Impressions of Upper Mongolia
Title: Impressions of Upper Mongolia
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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As Far as Love Can Go
Title: As Far as Love Can Go
Character: Salvador Dalí (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...
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Title: V.I.P. Schaukel
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Johnny Minotaur
Title: Johnny Minotaur
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles Henri Ford grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries and a philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert and Lynne Tillman.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Fun and Games for Everyone
Title: Fun and Games for Everyone
Released: December 22, 1969
Type: Movie
“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with Salvador Dalí, Barbet Schroeder and Jean Mascolo... the solarized image reminiscent of thick strokes of a paintbrush.” - Philippe Azoury
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God Chose Paris
Title: God Chose Paris
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 5, 1969
Type: Movie
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.
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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: Night-Club
Character: self
Released: September 13, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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A Season With Mankind
Title: A Season With Mankind
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The questioning of an individual lost in the society of man.
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Screen Test #3
Title: Screen Test #3
Released: October 23, 1966
Type: Movie
One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
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Salvador Dalí's Fantastic Dream
Title: Salvador Dalí's Fantastic Dream
Released: July 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Produced by 20th Century Fox, this Maysles Brothers short was intended to help promote the release of Disney's Fantastic Voyage (1966) for which Salvador Dali was artistic consultant. Shot in and around New York, the film features a cameo by a bikini clad Raquel Welch, star of Fantastic Voyage and Dali's muse for a series of portraits of Hollywood starlets.
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Salvador Dalí
Title: Salvador Dalí
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Salvador Dalí is a 35-minute film directed by Andy Warhol. The film features surrealist artist Salvador Dalí visiting The Factory and meeting the rock band The Velvet Underground.
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Title: Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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Dali In New York
Title: Dali In New York
Character: Himself
Released: February 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave." Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever" About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dali's surreal universe.
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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
Title: Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Salvador Dalí Home Movie
Title: Salvador Dalí Home Movie
Character: Self
Released: April 27, 1954
Type: Movie
In Salvador Dalí’s home movies, the 50-year-old Surrealist artist plays with a kitten, an animal skull, and a rake to entertain a friend filming him on the terrace of his villa in Port Lligat, Costa Brava, Spain.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Un Chien Andalou
Title: Un Chien Andalou
Character: Seminarist (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
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Dali's Last Masterpiece
Title: Dali's Last Masterpiece
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie