Dadascope

Dadascope

40 mins | Jan. 1, 1961

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.

Dadascope

40 mins | Jan. 1, 1961

Dadascope
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.
Producers
Original title Dadascope
Directors Hans Richter
Writers Jean Arp

Cast

Jean Arp

as Voiceover

Marcel Duchamp

as Self / Voiceover

Raoul Hausmann

as Voiceover

Richard Huelsenbeck

as Voiceover

Marcel Janco

as Voiceover

Walter Mehring

as Voiceover

Man Ray

as Voiceover (archive audio)

Kurt Schwitters

as Voiceover (archive audio)

Tristan Tzara

as Voiceover

Wladimir Vogel

as Voiceover