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Maya Deren and Avant-Garde Cinema. Lecture 10. Dada Film: Avant-garde movement. Beginning in 1915-1922 Key theoretician: Tristan Tzara Anti-art, anti-rational Key filmmakers: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Eric Satie, René Clair. Marcel Duchamp’ readymades : Fountain (1917).
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Maya Deren and Avant-Garde Cinema Lecture 10
Dada Film: Avant-garde movement • Beginning in 1915-1922 • Key theoretician: Tristan Tzara • Anti-art, anti-rational • Key filmmakers: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Eric Satie, René Clair
Anonymous editorial in The Blind Man: “Whether Mr Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance. HE CHOSE it. He took an article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view—created a new thought for that object.”
Entr’acte (René Clair, 1924) • Picabia on the film: “Entr’acte does not believe in very much, in the pleasure of life, perhaps; it believes in the pleasure of inventing, it respects nothing except the desire to burst out laughing.”