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Anémic Cinéma
Artist
Marcel Duchamp
(Frankrike, 1887 - 1968)
Alternate Title
- Anemisk film
- Anemic Cinema
Date1926
Medium35 mm film, b/w, silent
Dimensions8:25 min
ClassificationMoving Images
Credit LinePurchase 2012
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2012/116
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork
Selected exhibition history Dansmaskiner (den 22 januari 2014 - den 27 april 2014) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2020 - Apropå Baldessari (2020) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Dance machines
Anémic Cinéma is Marcel Duchamp’s only cinematic work and is now regarded as a classic of both dadaism and surrealism. In the film, hypnotic graphic spiral patterns alternate with rotating texts, a series of enigmatic messages, some of which are lewd puns in French. The animation effect was achieved by filming the artist’s Rotoreliefs on a turntable.
Duchamp began early in his career to experiment with optical phenomena such as the effect of negative and positive shapes on our seeing. Here, the elements of silent movies at the time – image and text – are reduced to a minimum, as the title infers. In this work, Duchamp is striving to dissolve both visual and linguistic rationality.
Selected exhibition history Dansmaskiner (den 22 januari 2014 - den 27 april 2014) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2020 - Apropå Baldessari (2020) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Dance machines