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Entr'acte is a silent French Dada short film directed by René Clair. It premiered on 4 December 1924 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris as a prologue and entr'acte for the Ballets Suédois production of Relâche , [1] based on a book by Francis Picabia , [2] which had settings by Picabia, was produced by Rolf de Maré , and was ...
René Clair Entr'acte 1924. Not on view. Still one of the best-known avant-garde films of the 1920s, Entr’acte was immediately heralded as a “cinematic masterpiece.”. It stages a series of zany, disconnected scenes, including a chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray that is swept away by a jet of water, a dizzying roller coaster ...
René Clair’s 1924 avant-garde masterpiece Entr’Acte opens with a cannon firing into the audience and that’s pretty much a statement of purpose for the whole movie. Clair wanted to shake up the audience, throwing it into a disorienting world of visual bravado and narrative absurdity.
Oct 4, 1979 · Entr'acte: Directed by René Clair. With Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp. An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
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Entr'acte [1] est un film français réalisé par René Clair. La sortie était prévue le 27 novembre 1924 mais le film fut projeté le 4 décembre 1924, au théâtre des Champs-Élysées, durant l'entracte de Relâche, un ballet instantanéiste orchestré par Francis Picabia, sur une musique d'Erik Satie et chorégraphié par Jean Börlin. Il ...
Oct 11, 2016 · A classic of avant-garde cinema, 'Entr'acte' was made as an intermission for the Ballets Suédois production of Relâche, a Dada theater work that premiered in Paris in December of 1924. The ballet's director, Francis Picabia, gave René Clair a short scenario around which to build the film, and Erik Satie composed an original score to ...
Jun 2, 2016 · Abstract. This chapter explores the 1924 film Entr’acte, by Francis Picabia and René Clair, as an interdisciplinary project that combines ideas of cinematography, music, and choreography. The film constitutes a significant project of the avant-garde of 1920s Paris, driven by a strong conceptual framework and influenced by early twentieth ...
