Dada Cinema - DVD

Contains a 36- pages booklet about the films and the Dada movement, with texts by Philippe-Alain Michaud and Hans Richter.

I give chance a chance as I do in painting, as I Do in film. That was the main credo of Dada: the discovery of chance as a possibility of expression.
I suddenly found that everything was permitted. You could go anywhere with any material. You should not hold back. Your whole unconscious, your whole belief should sputter out, should come out. It was really trying to find a new form of expression.
Hans Richter, Camera Three, 1973

The cinematograph universe of Dada is a crossroads of iconographic subversion and abstraction, formal geometry and corporeal eroticism, bathed in a general indifference to "making sense" - unless it is making sense of its own deconstruction.
P.-A. Michaud, Centre Pompidou, 2004

With a persistence and single-mindedness no less formidable that Seurat or Mondrian's, [Eggeling] distilled a vocabulary of pictorial forms out of the chaos of nature. "Ballet Mecanique" is the classical example of a fully developed painting aesthetic transposed into film by a modern artist of major significance.
Standish D. Lawder, The Cubist Cinema, 1975

"Rhythmus 21" - Hans Richter / 1921 - 24 / 35mm / n/b / muet / 3.30 Min.
"Symphonie Diagonale" - Viking Eggeling / 1921 - 24 / 35mm / n/b / muet / 7 Min.
"Le Retour A La Raison" - Man Ray / 1923 / 35mm / n/b / muet / 2 Min.
"Entr'acte" - Rene Clair & Francis Picabia / 1924 / 35mm / n/b / sonore / 20 Min.
"Le Ballet Mecanique" - Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphy / 1924 / 35mm / couleur / sonore / 14 Min.
"Filmstudie" - Hans Richter / 1926 / 35mm / n/b / sonore / 3.30 Min.
"Emak Bakia" - Man Ray / 1926 / 35mm / nb / sonore / 17 Min.
"Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts before breakfast)" - Hans Richter / 1927 / 35mm / n/b / sonore / 6 Min.