| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 64 min.) : sil, black and white ; 4 3/4 in |
| Contents |
Entŕacte -- La coquille et le clergyman = (Seashell and the clergyman) -- Ballet mécanique -- Anemic cinema |
| Summary |
Entŕacte: After a man is killed, his coffin takes on a life of its own. After a long surrealistic chase, he climbs out of his coffin and makes everyone that was chasing his coffin disappear! -- container |
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La coquille et le clergyman: Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, while struggling against his own eroticism. -- container |
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Ballet mecanique: An experimental film short from Cubist painter Fernand Léger containing a montage of images and rhythms that create a hallucinatory effect. Features the original soundtrack. -- container |
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Anemic cinema: An abstract and maybe nihilistic film short containing spiral forms merging into a rotating disc that's labeled with different messages. -- container |
| Notes |
Silent films originally released from 1924 through 1928 |
| Credits |
Entŕacte (1924) : directed by Rene Clair ; written by Francie Picabia |
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La Coquille et le clergyman (1928) : directed by Germain Dulac ; Written by Antonin Artaud |
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Ballet mecanique (1924) : directed and written by Fernand Léger |
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Anemic cinema (1926) : directed by Marchel Duchamp |
| Cast |
Entŕacte: Jean Börlin, Eric Satie, Francis Picabia, Marcel Dutchamp, Man Ray |
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La coquille et le clergyman: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille |
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Ballet mecanique: Kiki Montparnasse |
| Notes |
DVD; all zones |
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Unrated |
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English/French title |
| Subject |
Dadaism.
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Surrealism in motion pictures.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures, French.
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| Genre/Form |
Silent films.
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Short films.
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Experimental films.
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Video recordings.
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| Author |
Clair, René, 1898-1981.
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Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953.
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Börlin, Jean, 1893-1930.
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Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
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Man Ray, 1890-1976.
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Dulac, Germaine, 1882-1942.
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Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.
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Allin, Alex.
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Athanasiou, Génica, 1897-1966.
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Bataille, Lucien.
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Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955.
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Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968.
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Kiki, 1901-1953.
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Cinémathèque française.
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