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Anémic Cinéma
Artist
Marcel Duchamp
(Frankrike, 1887 - 1968)
Alternate Title
- Anemic Cinema
- Anemisk film
Date1926
Medium35 mm film, b/w, silent
Dimensions8:25 min
ClassificationMoving Images
Credit LinePurchase 2012
Countries
On view
StockholmRoomGallery 01:4
Object NumberMOM/2012/116
About the artwork
Marcel Duchamp’s only film work is considered a classic of both Dadaism and Surrealism. The film shows one of the artist’s “rotoreliefs” spinning on a turntable – discs with hypnotic graphic spiral patterns. They alternate with rotating texts on which a series of enigmatic, partly indecent puns in French can be read. Duchamp experimented early on with optical phenomena, such as how negative and positive form affect vision. Here, the elements of silent film – image and text – are reduced to a minimum, as suggested by the title. In this work, Duchamp seeks a dissolution of the rational, both visually and linguistically. The film was produced in collaboration with photographer Man Ray and film director Marc Allégret, and is signed in the closing credits by Duchamp’s female alter ego Rrose Sélavy.
Selected exhibition history Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2020 - Apropå Baldessari (2020) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm Dansmaskiner (den 22 januari 2014 - den 27 april 2014) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Dance machines
Selected exhibition history Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2020 - Apropå Baldessari (2020) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm Dansmaskiner (den 22 januari 2014 - den 27 april 2014) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Dance machines