Movielogr
Dadascope (1961)
Directed by Hans Richter
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.
Length 40 minutes
Actors
Marcel Duchamp | Man Ray | Tristan Tzara | Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes | Kurt Schwitters | Richard Huelsenbeck | Raoul Hausmann | Marcel Janco | Walter Mehring | Jean Arp | Wladimir Vogel