Also , when it comes to Surrealism ,the visual language is most apparent to me in the Dagobah cave scene in ESB and most especially the vision Rey has in TLJ with multiple versions of herself going off into infinity . That is the artistic principle of recursion ,inherent in the works of surrealist artists who defined the term surrealism , Salvador Dali , Max Ernst ,M.C. Escher etc . and it is spot on .
Yeah, it’s a real pity that SW hasn’t gone into more blatantly surreal filmmaking like the Dagobah cave scene more often, and kind of surprising as well as the Force allows for so many ways to get weird stylistically. There’s of course the TFA vision, though I think that one was a tad too literal, and other than the TLJ scene there’s really only the Mortis arc from TCW. That is unless you go into books and comics, though then we’re no longer dealing with cinema.
It’s interesting though that the Dagobah scene could have turned out far less surreal had it not been for Roger Christian’s Black Angel short film that was shown before ESB in the UK. Christian was inspired by Andrej Tarkovskij, who’s quite an abstract filmmaker in his own right, and when Lucas saw the final fight scene in the short he decided to change the Luke vs Vader scene in post by adding the same step-printing effect to it. It’s an effect that reminds me a lot of what David Lynch often did, especially in Twin Peaks, and it’s a real shame that director’s nowadays don’t use these simple, but effective, editing tricks anymore. I suppose with all the fancy digital effects that are available today something as simple as step-printing, despite probably being very easy to emulate digitally, might seem quaint. It’s amazing what you can do to a film scene stylistically by simply messing with the frame-rate a little.