This film will take you on an extraordinary journey into the word of the Surrealists as the life and accomplishments of the surrealist collector, poet, and architect Edward James unfolds. For the last 20 years of his life, aided by 40 full time laborers and craftsmen, he built one of the biggest and yet least known architectural monuments of the 20th century, dedicated to Surrealism and hidden in the jungles of Mexico. Born into extreme wealth and luxury (he was rumored to be the bastard son of King Edward VII), he turned his back on the rigid aristocratic circles of Edwardian England, and befriended, supported, and collaborated with fledgling artists who would become household names in later years. Those artists included Salvador Dali, Leonora Carrington, Rene Magritte, Kurt Weil, Bertolt Brecht, George Balanchine, Aldous Huxley, Man Ray, and Sigmund Freud. Although he has been called "A legend among the legendary", only a few people recognize his name or know of his artistic accomplishments.

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Builder of Dreams directed by Avery Danziger, Nancy Stein and USA, Documentary, 1995, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:58:00 Leaving England in 1940 with the intention of making the United States his home, he found himself in 1944 moving instead to the city Cuernavaca, Mexico. There he met Plutarco Gastélum, a yaqui photographer... more info

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