Depot brings you a celebration of all things surreal! This programme of films and events running through the summer invites you to delve into your unconscious mind and explore the playful, uncanny, wonderfully weird world of surrealism in art and film.

We’ll be screening films that span the last century, seeing how filmmakers from Jean Cocteau to David Lynch to Satoshi Kon have used abstract imagery to dissect and satirise social conventions. We’ll be joined by Antony Penrose, director of The Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection at Farleys House, to introduce our screening of The Blood of a Poet & Un Chien Andalou.

We’re thrilled to collaborate with Farley Arts Trust to bring you the exhibition ‘Wonderfully Surreal’, showcasing photography that engages with the art of acclaimed artist and photojournalist Lee Miller. Miller is the subject of the new film Lee, starring Kate Winslet and Josh O’Connor, which will be screening in September. Depot’s Artwave exhibition this year will also tie in with the theme of surrealism.

Finally, we invite you to join us for a supper club like no other! Inspired by the life and cooking of Lee Miller, our head chef has designed a deliciously strange menu for our Surreal Supper Club. Don your most avant-garde outfits and prepare for a night of surprising culinary delights. Plus, keep your eyes peeled for some highly unusual cocktail specials making an appearance in Robert’s Bar!