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By: Maria Popova
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‘A magical display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time.’
After last week’s discovery of Salvador Dalí’s little-known 1969 Alice in Wonderland illustrations, I followed the rabbit hole to another confluence of creative culture titans. In 1945, Dalí and Walt Disney embarked upon a formidable collaboration — to create a six-minute sequence combining animation with live dancers, in the process inventing a new animation technique inspired by Freud’s work of Freud on the unconscious mind and the hidden images with double meaning. The film, titled Destino, tells the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, who falls in love with a mortal woman as the two float across the surrealist landscapes of Dalí’s paintings. The poetic, wordless animation features a score by Mexican composer Armando Dominguez performed by Dora Luz.
As fascinating as the film itself is the juxtaposition of the two creative geniuses behind it, each bringing his own life-lens to the project — Dalí described the film as “A magical display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time” and Disney called it “A simple story about a young girl in search of true love.” Source:mentalfloss
Really want someone to do drugs with me tomorrow , but everyone is lame and hates me. (More for me then)
A world without eyelids is a scary place.
The letter kills me..
I wonder if richard ramirez liked joy division or the smiths? Random high thoughts...
I don’t know if he liked Joy Division but he did like a few songs by The Smiths: