Marcel Duchamp
Biography: Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. He is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and his output influenced the development of post–World War I Western art. He challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market, through subversive anti-art. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 28, 1887
Deathday: October 02, 1968
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Entr'acte
1924-12-04
Entr'acte
Overview: Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-12-04
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Witch's Cradle
1944-01-01
Witch's Cradle
Overview: The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy darkness and people filmed at odd angles, an exposed human heart, and other occult symbols and ritualistic imagery which evokes an unsettling and dream-like aura. Considered an unfinished film.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Europe After the Rain
1978-01-01
Europe After the Rain
Overview: Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Paris: The Luminous Years
2010-12-14
Paris: The Luminous Years
Overview: A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. For an incandescent moment from 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, and the Mecca for creative talents who would change the course of art throughout the Western world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-14
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Uncertain Verification
1965-04-30
Uncertain Verification
Overview: A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-30
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The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
1966-04-20
The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
Overview: Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend.
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-20
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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957-03-15
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
Overview: 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter as "part Freud, part Lewis Carroll" and filmed partially on the lawn of Duchamp's summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-15
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A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
1956-01-01
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
Overview: Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Duchamp describes his transition away from Impressionism toward a Cubist, and then post-Cubist, approach, providing commentary while standing before Nude Descending a Staircase
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Dadascope
1961-01-01
Dadascope
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Dada
1969-10-01
Dada
Overview: 1967 film directed by Greta Deseson about the Dada art movement. Featuring Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Hans Richter and Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Grimace
1967-01-01
Grimace
Overview: Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the camera.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Lafayette, We Come
1918-11-02
Lafayette, We Come
Overview: Leroy Trenchard loves Therese Verneuil, and when Leroy enters the army goes to France to fight, Therese follows as a Red Cross nurse. But suspicion arises that Therese is actually Princess Sonia, a German spy.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-02
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Merce by Merce by Paik
1978-01-01
Merce by Merce by Paik
Overview: Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Segments”, is a work of video-dance produced by Merce Cunningham and videomaker Charles Atlas. The second part, produced by Paik and Shigeko Kubota, further queries the relationship between everyday gestures and formal notions of dance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
1966-01-01
Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
Overview: Marcel Duchamp alternates between scrutinizing the camera, and smiling and nodding in response to what seems to be a large crowd of off-screen admirers trying to get his attention. Occasionally he puts his fingers to his lips, indicating that he is not supposed to talk.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
2020-10-23
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
Overview: A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965-11-28
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable
2009-01-01
Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable
Overview: Three-part, three-hour documentary with interviews about Marcel Duchamp.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
1963-01-01
Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
Overview: Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir
2024-11-10
Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-10
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Passionate Pastime
1958-01-01
Passionate Pastime
Overview: Hans Richter's documentary on the game of chess. Narrated by Vincent Price. Outlines the history of chess from ancient times to the present and traces its origins in India, China, and Persia. Prints, painting, illuminated manuscripts, live photography and rare chess pieces are shown as well as chess figures designed after Picasso and Braque.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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