Marcel Duchamp's "Anémic cinéma" (1926) | MoMA FILM VAULT SUMMER CAMP
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2020
- Artist Marcel Duchamp’s wicked sense of humor and fascination with optics are both on display in "Anémic cinéma." The film is relatively simple in its construction: 19 spinning disks, some made of words and others of spiral designs. Its genius lies in the wordplay that emerges as the words and phrases change position, taking on new meaning and creating witty visual puns, and in the optical illusion of the flat, painted disks taking on depth when spun. The artist pits the three-dimensional spirals-which Duchamp called “Rotoreliefs”-against two-dimensional text, turning the film into a dynamic, kinetic poem. Even the title is part of the gag. (Spoiler: “anemic” and “cinema” are anagrams.)
There are other, unauthorized versions of this work, including one with footage taken from Sergei Eisenstein’s films of a statue of Napoleon, a girl’s face, and a tank. Duchamp was adamant that none of these were his version. Because "Anémic cinéma" is endlessly fascinating and possible to analyze from countless perspectives-math, ophthalmology, French language, sculpture-MoMA’s curators are continually finding ways to exhibit the film, including in "Geometry of Motion, 1920s/1970s," "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925," and, of course, "DADA."
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Would be nice to have subtitles for the french text!
Marcel Duchamp's,
He is one of the legendary painters.
I can follow some of this, but alas, my French is not good enough by far to understand and appreciate Duchamp's brilliant puns, some lovably naughty. These go well beyond "Marchand du sel / Marcel Duchamp". Anyone know where these are explicated by someone knowledgable? I'm curious to feed a few of these to Google Translate just to see how badly they get murdered. As an artist I am much attracted to the spiral.
Interesting..I would like to know what type music inspired Marcel du Champ?🎶 🤔
I've recently made a small piece inspired by this film, using tiny plastic letters embedded in resin, in the form of a spiral, with Duchamp's text about "Esquivons les ecchymoses", etc., but extending it at the end with "en esquimais" (in Eskimo language, that is, for those whose French is even worse than mine). Duchamp may well have thought of the same thing thing but felt he didn't have room for it.
Why there's no sound?
Because cinema was silent.