Dadascope by Hans Richter. Transfer from original 16mm print.
DADASCOPE (1961)
Run time: 39 min
Starring: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jean Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Raoul
Hausmann and others.
Dadascope is a comprehensive portrait of the Dada movement with its specific techniques of sound and visual clash, word puns, chess, dice and other games of chance. Richter stated, "There is no story, no psychological implication except such as the onlooker puts into the imagery. But it is not accidental either, more a poetry of images built with and upon associations. In other words the film allows itself the freedom to play upon the scale of film possibilities, freedom for which Dada always stood - and still stands."