Featuring rare archive footage, this short film follows ’s cousin and journalist, Joanna Moorhead, exploring the artist’s story. was one of the most prolific members of the Surrealist movement. After rejecting her upper-class upbringing in northern England, Carrington embarked upon a relationship with Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and became central in the Surrealist circles of France and New York.
After hanging out with celebrated names such as Andre Breton and Pablo Picasso, the artist then moved to Mexico where she spend the rest of her life painting, as well as making sculptures, tapestry, writing poetry and designing for theatre and film. This film is republished with kind permission by The Guardian.
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