Marcel Duchamp

Lafayette, We Come

Léonce Perret

E.K. Lincoln, Dolores Cassinelli

Leroy Trenchard loves Therese Verneuil, and when Leroy enters the army goes to France to fight, Therese follows as a Red Cross nurse. But suspicion arises that Therese is actually Princess Sonia, a German spy.

Europe After the Rain

Mick Gold

Joan Bakewell, Simon Cadell

Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.

Paris The Luminous Years

Perry Miller Adato

Josephine Baker, Sylvia Beach

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. For an incandescent moment from 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, and the Mecca for creative talents who would change the course of art throughout the Western world.

Entr'acte

René Clair

Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

Matthew A. Taylor

Alison Knowles, Arturo Schwarz

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.

Dadascope

Hans Richter

Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp

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.

Witch's Cradle

Maya Deren

Marcel Duchamp, Pajorita Matta

Witch’s Cradle is an unfinished Maya Deren film made in the Guggenheim Gallery during a surrealist “Art of this Century” exhibit. It was assembled long after her death by staffers within the preservation department at Anthology Film Archives.

La verifica incerta

Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi

Rossano Brazzi, Marcel Duchamp

A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

Jeu d'échec avec Marcel Duchamp

Jean-Marie Drot

Jean-Marie Drot, Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess.

Anémic cinéma

Marcel Duchamp

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter

Hans Arp, Paul Bowles

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter as "part Freud, part Lewis Carroll" and filmed partially on the lawn of Duchamp's summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Andy Warhol

Eric Andersen, Paul America

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.

Merce by Merce by Paik

Nam June Paik

Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp

Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Segments”, is a work of video-dance produced by Merce Cunningham and videomaker Charles Atlas. The second part, produced by Paik and Shigeko Kubota, further queries the relationship between everyday gestures and formal notions of dance.

Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable

Fabrice Maze

Marcel Duchamp, Monique Fong

Three-part, three-hour documentary with interviews about Marcel Duchamp.

Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp

Andy Warhol

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp alternates between scrutinizing the camera, and smiling and nodding in response to what seems to be a large crowd of off-screen admirers trying to get his attention. Occasionally he puts his fingers to his lips, indicating that he is not supposed to talk.