Coffee with a Curator
October 7 @ 10:30am – 11:30am
At the Cinema with the Surrealists
Join us for this month’s installment of our Coffee with a Curator series featuring Patrick Ellis, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Tampa. In conjunction with our special exhibition Dalí in America, this combination lecture and screening explores the cinematic infatuations of Dalí and the Surrealists. From Disney and Hitchcock to the Three Stooges, Dalí’s film collaborations are well known—but what of his other cinematic enthusiasms? Discover Dalí’s idiosyncratic tastes in film before zooming out to explore the lesser-known Hollywood obsessions of the Surrealists. By the morning’s end, you, too, may be watching movies like a Surrealist.
Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater (registration required) or live on YouTube (link below).
This event is free with limited capacity. An event ticket is required for entry.
Gallery access is not included.
Please note: This free lecture has limited seating and often sells out. A valid registration ticket—printed or on your phone—is required for entry to the Will Raymund Theater. If you don’t have your ticket ready when you arrive, your entry may be delayed. This ticket covers the lecture only; gallery access is not included. Guests without a ticket to the lecture may be able to watch a live stream of the lecture in the Raymond James Community Room when space allows, though this is not guaranteed.
To watch the live stream from home, click below at the time of the program:
Patrick Ellis, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Tampa, is a historian of film and media. The author of Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird’s-Eye View (University of California Press, 2021), he has published widely in journals including Animation, Early Popular Visual Culture, Film History, Imago Mundi and The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Ellis also does curatorial work and has programmed screenings and exhibits for the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta), the Media Archaeology Lab (Boulder), the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) and the Wolfsonian Museum (Miami), among others.
