Dadascope

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Hans Richter

Writers

Jean Arp

Language

French

Country

United States of America

Release date

7 August 1962

Ensemble

Cast

• Jean Arp

  Voiceover

• 

  Marcel Duchamp

  Self / Voiceover

• Raoul Hausmann

  Voiceover

• Richard Huelsenbeck

  Voiceover

• Marcel Janco

  Voiceover

• Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

  Voiceover

• Walter Mehring

  Voiceover

• 

  Man Ray

  Voiceover (archive audio)

• Kurt Schwitters

  Voiceover (archive audio)

• Tristan Tzara

  Voiceover

• Wladimir Vogel

  Voiceover