Dadascope

7.7 / 10

(6 votes)

Free-associative images are juxtaposed with disorienting poetry in Richter's late work. The film is visual dynamite: Upside-down and reversed footage, play with shadows and light, billiards and dice and balloons-- suggestive and surreal images. Tenets of Dada writing, such as games of chance, punnery, wordplay and loud nonsense noise are foist upon the viewer as Dada poems are read / performed by their orignal authors.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:
Duration:

40 minutes

Year:

1962

Director:

Hans Richter

Cast:
Jean Arp

Voiceover

Marcel Duchamp

Self / Voiceover

Raoul Hausmann

Voiceover

Richard Huelsenbeck

Voiceover

Marcel Janco

Voiceover

Crew:
Hans Richter

Director

Man Ray

Poem

Walter Mehring

Poem

Hans Richter

Poem

Tristan Tzara

Poem