Many of Bob Godfrey’s films contain visual elements of surprise, unexpected stylistic combination and non sequitur, all qualities attributed to surrealism, which was described by Antonin Artaud as, above all, a state o...展开f mind. Surrealist imagery aims to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous or irrational juxtaposition of subject matter.
In "Revolution -La Belle France" the surrealist gesture dominates. with dancing Eiffel towers or Margaret Thatcher as a French belle dame collaged in the traditions of Polish animator Jan Lenica and of his admirer Terry Gilliam (who, as a young animator, Godfrey didn’t hire because he was “too good”!).