The Real Tuesday Weld perform a live original alternative score to the Hans Richter surrealist classic “Dreams That Money Can Buy”. The band have performed this soundtrack live to accompany screenings of the film at the NFT in April 2005 and at Tate Modern in May 2006, Bath, Belfast, Moscow and various International Film festivals since as a Reality Film Production. The British Film Institute have released the film for the first time on DVD including the exclusive alternative soundtrack with narration by Brazilian chanteuse Cibelle and English alchemist David Piper. The soundtrack alone can be purchased as a CD here. Purchasers of the DVD from Antique Beat will receive a complimentary copy of the audio only soundtrack CD.

The film is part of BFI Video’s A History of the Avant-Garde series, which features the best of radical and innovative film making from the first hundred years of cinema.

Extras

1. 3 short films by Hans Richter: Rhythmus 21 (1921); Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928) and Everyday (1929).
2. Bonus alternative soundtrack by The Real Tuesday Weld.
3. Filmed interview with The Real Tuesday Weld and Cibelle on composing the soundtrack.
4. Fully illustrated 28-page booklet containing an interview with Hans Richter, film notes, biographies, credits and details on The Real Tuesday Weld.

Berlin-born Hans Richter – Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker – was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. Richter 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. Among its admirers is film director David Lynch.

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’ he gives to his clients are the creations of Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder and Richter himself, and the result is by turns playful, hypnotic, satirical, charming and nightmarish. Dreams That Money Can Buy is a film in seven segments namely:

Desire Director, Writer – Max Ernst
The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart Director, Writer – Fernand Lr
Ruth, Roses and RevolversDirector, Writer – Man Ray
Discs Director, Writer – Marcel Duchamp
Ballet Director, Writer – Alexander Calder
Circus Director, Writer – Alexander Calder
Narcissus Director, Writer – Hans Richter

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