Dadascope

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.

Directed by Hans Richter

Images

Cast

Jean Arp

Voiceover

Marcel Duchamp

Self / Voiceover

Raoul Hausmann

Voiceover

Richard Huelsenbeck

Voiceover

Marcel Janco

Voiceover

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

Voiceover

Walter Mehring

Voiceover

Man Ray

Voiceover (archive audio)

Kurt Schwitters

Voiceover (archive audio)

Tristan Tzara

Voiceover

Wladimir Vogel

Voiceover

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