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.
Cast
- Jean Arp as Voiceover
- Marcel Duchamp as Self / Voiceover
- Raoul Hausmann as Voiceover
- Richard Huelsenbeck as Voiceover
- Marcel Janco as Voiceover
- Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes as Voiceover
- Walter Mehring as Voiceover
- Man Ray as Voiceover (archive audio)
- Kurt Schwitters as Voiceover (archive audio)
- Tristan Tzara as Voiceover