Four short silent films with added music scores. Entr'acte: Erik Satie, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jean Borlin. Le coquille et le clergyman: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille. Ballet mécanique: Kiki of Montparnasse.
Entr'acte: an early surrealistic effort from French director Rene' Clair based on an idea from painter Frances Picabia. After a man is killed his coffin takes on a life of it's own. After a long chase, he climbs out of his coffin and makes everyone that was chasing him disappear! 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. Anemic cinema: the only film by Duchamp, an abstract film short containing spiral forms merging into a rotating disc that's labeled with differing messages. Ballet mecanique: an experimental film from Cubist painter Fernand Leger containing a montage of images and rhythms that create a hallucinatory effect. Features the original soundtrack.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)60034821
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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