Man Ray
Also Known As: Emmanuel Radnitzky
Biography: Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known in the art world for his avant garde photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 27, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 18, 1976
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Un été à la Garoupe
Overview: La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films his friends Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul Eluard and his wife Nusch, as well as Lee Miller. During these few weeks, love, friendship, poetry, photography and painting are still mixed in the carefree and the creativity specific to the artistic movements of the interwar period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-28
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Man Ray et les équations shakespeariennes
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Original Language: fr
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About Special Effects
Overview: This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-09-04
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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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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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William Wegman: Video Work 1970-1999
Overview: From 1970-1977 William Wegman created some of the most innovative and important works in the history of video. These early pioneering tapes were created using minimal technology and a few studio props, including Wegman’s canine companion, Man Ray. Consisting of 130 works, some no longer than a television commercial, blurred the boundaries between high and low art as well as art and commerce, and have become a major chapter in the histories of contemporary art and film. This exhaustive compilation has been assembled by the artist with restored material and it contains all nine original reels as well as two later reels. Classics such as Pocketbook Man, Milk/Floor, Stomach Song, Cape On, Stick and Tooth, Spelling Lesson, Dog Duet, Man Ray, Do You Want to? Are included.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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Dog Duet
Overview: "In the piece we see the two dogs staring at the camera in a dark room. Their eyes are intently following something off camera. Sometimes their head movement is pull into the action as they crane to follow the whatever it is in various left right and up down directions. At one point the action seems to stop and the dogs begin to blink in syncopation. At this point Hooka settles down into a lying position but Man Ray remains riveted. Towards the end piece the dogs crane to look behind them and at one miraculous moment their motions counter each other. At the end we see the object of their attention…in my hand, a tennis ball."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Lee Miller: Through the Mirror
Overview: Biographical documentary of Lee Miller (aka Elizabeth Miller, 1907-1977), her early years in USA under her father's influence, later became a model turned artist and celebrated photographer, including her photojournalism during WWII, and her second marriage to British surrealism painter Roland Penrose postwar. Film is told through interviews with Miller's son, Antony Penrose.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-19
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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.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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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
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.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Poison
Overview: Short black and white surrealist film from Man Ray starring himself and Meret Oppenheim.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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Self-Portrait or What We All Miss
Overview: Mix of surrealist images of bubbles and smoke with some documentation of the world lived by Man Ray and Lee Miller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-29
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La Garoupe
Overview: Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-29
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Ady
Overview: Very brief view of Man Ray and his friend Ady Fidelin while at a seaside resort
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Dance
Overview: Home movie from Man Ray featuring dancer Jenny gyrating in black and white.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Juliet
Overview: A late period home movie with Man Ray and his lovely friend Juliet Browner lounging together in the US. Man Ray had returned to America when the Germans occupied France.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice
Overview: 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 masked faces play dice in a bar. They decide to drive to Paris. Country roads, hills, fences. The posh "chateau" appears again: meticulous garden, fancy interior, odd sculptures. And at home? "No one, NO ONE." For the next two days, masked figures play dice, frolic by the pool, perform exercises with a ball. Two new figures arrive. Masked. They search and find the dice. They dance. Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-06-06
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Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
Overview: Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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