Scored by Sqürl!

Fri, May 31 – Mon, Jun 3

The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929—Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L’Étoile de mer, and Les Mystères du Château du Dé—represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction all suffused with dark eroticism. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Le Retour à la raison, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo Sqürl present MAN RAY: RETURN TO REASON, with a newly-recorded drone rock soundtrack for all four films. – Janus Films

The restoration process was led by Womanray and Cinenovo sourcing original prints from various parts of the world, in partnership with La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, the French CNC and Cineteca di Bologna.