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Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger and the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil.
Not on view. This film remains one of the most influential experimental works in the history of cinema. The only film made directly by the artist Fernand Léger, it demonstrates his concern during this period—shared with many other artists of the 1920s—with the mechanical world.
Ballet mécanique: Directed by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy. With Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy. A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles.
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- Short
- Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
- 1924-09-24
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1923 - 1924. In the early 1920s, Fernand Léger came to have doubts about painting and turned to film and the moving image. There are recurrent preoccupations, however, that appear. Ballet mécanique has no scenario, no narrative logic, rapid cutting being used to bring about the collision of different points of view and different objects, the ...
Film is by nature a collaborative medium, and certainly one of the strangest and most interesting cinematic collaborations of all time has to be the 1924 avant-garde film Ballet Mécanique, which brought together the modernist luminaries Fernand Léger, Ezra Pound, Man Ray and George Antheil. Open Culture, openculture.com.
