Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made an exhilarating art. All his objective was to “put art to the service of the mind”, or to create what Jasper Johns once called the “domain where language, thought and vision act on the other”. And this is precisely what Duchamp's avant-garde film in 1926 Anemic cinema Delivered. You can look at a restored version above.
Based on his inheritance, Duchamp Shot Anemic cinema (almost a palindrome) Ray's man Studio with the help of the director of photography Marc Allegret. The film inspired by Dada presents nine swirling optical illusions, known as Rotorelips, alternating with spiral puns and a complex play on words. Vision acts on language and thought, in fact.
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