Dadascope
40 mins
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.
Jean Arp
Voiceover
Marcel Duchamp
Self / Voiceover
Raoul Hausmann
Voiceover
Richard Huelsenbeck
Voiceover
Marcel Janco
Voiceover
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Voiceover
Walter Mehring
Voiceover
Kurt Schwitters
Voiceover (archive audio)
Tristan Tzara
Voiceover
Wladimir Vogel
Voiceover
Tristan Tzara
Poem
Raoul Hausmann
Poem
Walter Mehring
Poem
Jean Arp
Writer
Kurt Schwitters
Poem
Marcel Janco
Poem
Wladimir Vogel
Poem
Marcel Duchamp
Poem