Hans Richter was an original member of Dada and one of the first avant-garde filmmakers. He started making experimental

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Eumenides_0 — 15 years ago(November 16, 2010 01:52 PM)

Hans Richter was an original member of Dada and one of the first avant-garde filmmakers. He started making experimental movies in the early '20s. One of my favourite movies by him is
Dreams That Money Can Buy,
about a man who sells dreams to people. This of course is just an excuse for Richter and his artist friends - Max Ernst, Doroteha Tanning, Alexander Calder, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp - to compose a series of loosely connected vignettes displaying their artistic craft. It's funny, poetic, horrifying, baffling, playful, ambiguous, ambitious and daring.
I think anyone who likes unusual cinema will appreciate this film.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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lubin-freddy — 15 years ago(November 17, 2010 10:19 PM)

ARTE-TV had an evening of Hans Richter films a while back. I enjoy watching them, as I do others of the so-called avant-garde cinema.
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oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx — 15 years ago(November 28, 2010 09:53 AM)

As far as I was aware Dorothea Tanning didn't have a segment in this movie, but I see on a page about her that she played a character in the movie (she doesn't get a credit for that on IMDb.
It is just an excuse I agree, the film doesn't hang very well together at all. I saw this in the cinema and was dumbstruck by the Duchamp rotoscopes. Quite a bit of the rest had no impact on me.
Richter's Rennsymphonie and Ghosts Before Breakfast are good stuff to see as well.

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Eumenides_0 — 15 years ago(November 28, 2010 10:15 AM)

I've read Dorothea Tanning's memoirs,
Between Worlds,
that's how I learned she was in the movie.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx — 15 years ago(November 28, 2010 10:22 AM)

Good read?

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Eumenides_0 — 15 years ago(November 29, 2010 06:18 AM)

If the history of surrealism interests you, I'd say so.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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hiddenagenda1 — 11 years ago(December 03, 2014 05:45 PM)

This is the first time that I heard of it.
Volker Flenske: (While torturing David) I don't know why you're doing this to yourself!