Dadascope

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.

Cast

J

Jean Arp

Voiceover

Marcel Duchamp

Self / Voiceover

R

Raoul Hausmann

Voiceover

R

Richard Huelsenbeck

Voiceover

M

Marcel Janco

Voiceover

G

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

Voiceover

W

Walter Mehring

Voiceover

Man Ray

Voiceover (archive audio)

K

Kurt Schwitters

Voiceover (archive audio)

T

Tristan Tzara

Voiceover

W

Wladimir Vogel

Voiceover