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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
Directed by Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter
Overview
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter as “part Freud, part Lewis Carroll” and filmed partially on the lawn of Duchamp’s summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Hans Arp | Paul Bowles | Jean Cocteau | Marcel Duchamp | Max Ernst | Man Ray | Frederick Kiesler | Dorothea Ernst | Darius Milhaud | Richard Huelsenbeck | Yves Tanguy | Jaqueline Matisse | Alexander Calder | Willem de Vogel