What is Surreal Video Art?

Surreal video art uses moving images to create dreamlike, disorienting, or psychologically intense experiences. The medium’s temporal dimension allows for transformations, loops, and narrative structures impossible in static imagery. Video artists working in surrealist traditions create hypnotic, sometimes unsettling works that exploit the viewer’s expectations of time and causality. Artists like Draumir create surreal visuals matching hypnotic musical atmospheres, while others explore Afro-Surrealist futures through video. Contemporary video art intersects with AI generation, allowing for unprecedented visual effects and transformations. The surreal music video genre brings surrealist imagery to wide audiences through musical collaborations. Explore video art featured on Surrealism Today.