Dawn Ades, Why Film? Was there, for Dalí, a special appeal in film? Was it an alternative to his paintings, adaptable to certain effects beyond the reach of the canvas? Was it an extension of the pictorial image, or rather of his writings? Dawn Ades reviews Dalí's affair with film, a story of disappointments and optimism. Further Reading Paul Hammond L'Age d'or BFI Film Classics 1997 Dawn Ades "Morphologies of Desire" in Salvador Dali: The Early Years South Bank Centre 1994 Salvador Dali "The Rotting Donkey" (1930) in Haim Finkelstein The Collected Writings of Salvador Dali CUP 1998 p.223 Translation of Dali "Art Film, Anti-Artistic Film" (1927) in the Dali & Film, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London 2007