This collection of 13 essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential 20th-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desno's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de Mer, and an introduction by the editor that provides a cogent working model for the difference between Dada and Surrealist perspectives.