Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist, post- Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger and the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input …

In Ballet méchanique, repetition, movement, and multiple imagery combine to animate and give an aesthetic raison d'être to the clockwork structure of everyday life.

Claimed by the Dadaist and Cubist movements, this mad mad film is a cornucopia of fibrillating images, geometric figures, kaleidoscopic objects and so forth. All glued...

Ballet mécanique: Directed by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy. With Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy. A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to …

2012年9月4日 · Film is by nature a collaborative medium, and certainly one of the strangest and most interesting cinematic collaborations of all time has to be the 1924 avant-garde film Ballet …

Charlot, disarticulated silhouette, presents the mechanical ballet. A woman rocks on the swing in the garden. In a neutral space, objects burst: a straw hat, some numbers, bottles of wine, a...

2016年3月27日 · "Ballet Mécanique" (1924) is an avant-garde film directed by Fernand Léger with music by George Antheil, which combines abstract images, mechanical rhythms and industrial...

Considered one of experimental cinema’s masterpieces, Ballet Méchanique is the only film that artist Fernand Léger made directly. Dudley Murphy also directed and artist Man Ray directed …

2023年2月7日 · One spectacular 16mm print in the archive is the Dadaist film Ballet Mécanique, made in 1924 conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger. In early silent …

Mix Dadaism, Man Ray [cinematographer], Fernand Leger and Dudley Murphy [directors], and a music score by Andre Charlot [that wasn't added until 2000] yielding a wild and fantastic 11 …