Dadascope

The read

It runs a compact 40m.

Synopsis

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.

Ratings

Key crew

• Hans RichterDirector
• Jean ArpWriter

Cast

• Jean ArpVoiceover
• Marcel DuchampSelf / Voiceover
• Raoul HausmannVoiceover
• Richard HuelsenbeckVoiceover
• Marcel JancoVoiceover
• Georges Ribemont-DessaignesVoiceover
• Walter MehringVoiceover
• Man RayVoiceover (archive audio)
• Kurt SchwittersVoiceover (archive audio)
• Tristan TzaraVoiceover
• Wladimir VogelVoiceover