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A hundred years ago the surrealist movement was born. That time was influenced by political, economical, cultural and major ideological upheavals. At that time there were sparrings between men and women against the society of their time. At the top, there were the surrealists and their insurrectionary aim - in the inside and the outside - and spread all around the world. However since the death of André Breton en 1966 : what remains of surrealism ? What is its meaning in the current world?
For what reason the adjective "surrealist" became synonym of "nonsense" and why do we only keep the artistic aspect of the surrealists and why did we hid the true political and freeing target in a kind of social or intellectual elegance.
"Change man then society", "more reality", "reach superior realities out of the limits of reason": are we in metaphysics ? Psychology ? Mystic ? (In any case nothing close to "nonsense"...)
To answer this question, Michel Cazenave gathered Patrick Lepetit, poet, Jean-Luc Maxence, editor, and Paul Sanda, director of the maison des surréalistes de Cordes-sur-Ciel.
 
To Paul Sanda, surrealism is way of life which contains diverse expressions, or even opposed; there is Surrealism, but surrealists and it is that multiform characteristic which provoked fights between surrealists and misunderstanding from the general public.
To Patrick Lepetit, surrealism would be comparable to an initiatory order "without a wall nor a window..." which would get the legacy of illuminism, German Romanticism and Symbolism... and which old roots could be the celtism's ones, the Mother Goddess's cult, of the spirit of Nature's cult.
 
Jean-Luc Maxence invites us to a new reading of surrealism: "from the moment when a school is not a school, that is when it becomes interesting... when we can kill the "isms" and go back to the source of inspiration of Breton, Benjamin Péret, Charles Jameux, Bernard Roger, Paul Eluard... "
For our time which is characterized by a low ideological commitment to a soft consensus, bourgeois, uniform, and where even the current revolutionaries (leastways the ones the media let us see) look like Bobos in Paradise, and that is why they are the heirs of the great carnival of May 68..., what testament did these men leave ? When will we have a worthy take over... ?
A 50-minutes debate filmed at the Forum 104, we dedicate to the memory of Sarane Alexandrian who died two years ago.
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