Anémic cinéma

Short / Experimental
France, 1926, 7 min

Directed by:

Marcel Duchamp

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Repetitive submersion towards the unreachable central point of pure shapes floating and circling towards the vanishing point of the dazed viewer's field of vision sets off a spiral of sheer joy from the continuity of forms and lures the mind towards an optical fusion with the geometry of infinity. Iconic film hypnosis. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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Stanislaus 

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English A prime example of a Dadaist film, in which the viewer's attention is captured mainly by the hypnotic spinning of various-looking spirals in combination with "spinning intertitles". Had Marcel Duchamp chosen a shape other than a spiral (or circle), the film would certainly not have had the effect it does. ()

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