To coincide with the exhibitions of the work of surrealist artists Eileen Agar and Lee Miller, Pallant House Gallery presents a programme of films in association with Chichester Cinema at New Park, featuring some of the extraordinary people who have been associated with the movement. The Thursday evening screenings take place in the Lecture Room at the Gallery, a unique venue where works from the permanent collections are hung floor to ceiling next to the silver screen.

The programme starts on 6th November with a double bill of Un Chien Andalou and L�Age D�Or (1929/30) on Thursday 6 November at 5.30pm. These two landmark films were directed by Luis Bunuel in collaboration with Salvador Dali. Un Chien Andalou created a scandal at its premier due to the startling eye-slicing opening sequence.

L�Age D�Or , considered to be a Surrealist masterpiece, is a savage blend of visual poetry and social criticism. Bunuel attacks his usual targets � the church, the government, pretentious artists and aristocratic snobs. The film was banned for many years for its subversive eroticism and furious dissection of �civilised� values.

The Colour of Dreams is the first broadcast film made by Susanna White. It was part of a series called Five Women Painters. Made in Eileen Agar�s ninetieth year, this film shows Agar working on a collage; she also provides some of the commentary herself on this film about her life and work, talking about her childhood in Argentina and going to the Slade (despite family objections), and the influences that led her to Surrealism. It includes an introduction by the film�s director, Susanna White and will be shown on 4th December.

Directed by Christopher Hampton, and starring Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Rufus Sewell, Samuel West and Janet McTeer Carrington (1995), is the story of the young painter Dora Carrington�s fascinating life and her relationships including those with the love of her life, Lytton Strachey and Mark Gertler, to whom she was engaged; Rex Partridge, to whom she was manipulated into marriage � and a number of other conquests. The explanation as to why Carrington and Strachey should live together while loving others is developed during the film, screened on 29th January 09.

War photographer, artist, fashion model, surrealist muse; there were many facets to Lee Miller�s life and talents exlplored in a film shown on 26th February 09. The documentary, The Lives of Lee Miller (1986) produced by her son, Antony Penrose, for Channel 4, includes interviews with many people who knew her. The film includes footage from Jean Cocteau�s1930 film The Blood of a Poet in which Miller featured.

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