Dadascope (1961)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1961 (US)
  • 40m

Overview

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.

Hans Richter

Director

Jean Arp

Writer

Cast

Jean Arp's headshot

Jean Arp

Voiceover
Marcel Duchamp's headshot

Marcel Duchamp

Self / Voiceover
Raoul Hausmann's headshot

Raoul Hausmann

Voiceover
Richard Huelsenbeck's headshot

Richard Huelsenbeck

Voiceover
Marcel Janco's headshot

Marcel Janco

Voiceover
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes's headshot

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

Voiceover
Walter Mehring's headshot

Walter Mehring

Voiceover
Man Ray's headshot

Man Ray

Voiceover (archive audio)

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