Ballet Mécanique

Ballet Mécanique

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a...

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Return to Reason

Return to Reason

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a...

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Anemic Cinema

Anemic Cinema

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each...

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Emak-Bakia

Emak-Bakia

Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in...

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The Starfish

The Starfish

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

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Dreams That Money Can Buy

Dreams That Money Can Buy

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will...

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The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice

The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice

Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice. A castle is perched on a hilltop. Below it, a posh, modern villa. Meanwhile, far from Paris, two men with...

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Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray

An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American...

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Iconoclast

Iconoclast

Boyd Rice may well be the only person alive who's been on a first name basis with both Charles Manson and Marilyn Manson. His career has spanned...

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Paris la belle

Paris la belle

A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959.

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La Garoupe

La Garoupe

Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends...

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Dadascope

Dadascope

Free-associative images are juxtaposed with disorienting poetry in Richter's late work. The film is visual dynamite: Upside-down and reversed...

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Ady

Ady

Very brief view of Man Ray and his friend Ady Fidelin while at a seaside resort

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Corrida

Corrida

A Man Ray documentary short on bullfighting.

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What Do Young Films Dream About?

What Do Young Films Dream About?

A collaboration between Man Ray and Henri Chomette,, half-brother of the filmmaker René Clair.

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Home Movies

Home Movies

Home Movies of Man Ray and Ady Fidelin from 1938. Presents a simple and intimate portrait of the man behind the artist. Compilation of ten Man Ray...

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Dance

Dance

Home movie from Man Ray featuring dancer Jenny gyrating in black and white.

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Poison

Poison

Short black and white surrealist film from Man Ray starring himself and Meret Oppenheim.

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Rue Campagne-Première

Rue Campagne-Première

Man Ray shoots from a window on 31 bis rue Campagne-Première, in the heart of Montparnasse, where he rented a ground-floor studio.

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Les Chutes des "Mystères du château du Dé"

Les Chutes des "Mystères du château du Dé"

It is a separate short film made using unused scenes in "Les Mystères du Château de Dé".

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