Man Ray Films
- Synopsis
- Four films by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Dadaist and experimentalist well-known for his photographic work. During the 1920s he made four films that established him as a major figure of avant-garde cinema. The video also contains 11 short ‘autobiographical’ films, some of which are home-movie style and star his friends Pablo Picasso, Lee Miller, Paul Eluard and Roland Penrose. Presents an intimate portrait of an extraoardinary life and a fascinating personality.
1 (1923, 3 min): A film made without a camera - Ray’s attempt to confuse and confound the participants of the last great Dada convention. Produced using film cut into strips and randomly placing objects such as pins on them to produce X-ray like images. The strips were then glued together and a few camera-made shots were added.
2 (1927, 18 min): Ray employes surrealist techniques to create an unconventional surreal film, an abstract Dadaist cine-poem of spirals and landscapes, containing a nonnarrative plot within a nonlinear structure.
3: (1928, 15 min). A surrealistic film based on a poem by Robert Desnos, which uses a gelatin filter on the lens to distort the images, creating rhythmic patterns in dream-like sequences.
4: (1929, 25 min). An unsolved mystery in a modern villa designed by Malet-Stevens. - Series
- History of the Avant-Garde, A: Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 112 min.
- Year of production
- 1940
- Availability
- Sale; 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)
- Subjects
- Media studies
- Keywords
- experimental film & video; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Ray, Man; short films; surrealism
Credits
- Director
- Man Ray
- Contributor
- Lee Miller; Pablo Picasso
Sections
- Title
- Retour la raison, Le
- Synopsis
- 1 (1923, 3 min): A film made without a camera - Ray's attempt to confuse and confound the participants of the last great Dada convention. Produced using film cut into strips and randomly placing objects such as pins on them to produce X-ray like images. T
- Title
- Emak Bakia
- Synopsis
- 2 (1927, 18 min): Ray employes surrealist techniques to create an unconventional surreal film, an abstract Dadaist cine-poem of spirals and landscapes, containing a nonnarrative plot within a nonlinear structure.
- Title
- Etoile de mer, L’
- Synopsis
- 3: (1928, 15 min). A surrealistic film based on a poem by Robert Desnos, which uses a gelatin filter on the lens to distort the images, creating rhythmic patterns in dream-like sequences.
- Title
- Mystères du chateau du dé
- Synopsis
- 4: (1929, 25 min). An unsolved mystery in a modern villa designed by Malet-Stevens.
Production Company
- Name
Paris
Distributor
- Name
BFI Video
- video.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8957
- Fax
- 020 7957 8968
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
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