Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters

Born: June 20, 1887
Died: January 8, 1948
in Hanover, Germany

Movies for Kurt Schwitters...

Anna Blume
Title: Anna Blume
Character: (archive sound)
Released: January 28, 2010
Type: Movie
A visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman, dictated by the mind of Kurt Schwitters.
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Europe After the Rain
Title: Europe After the Rain
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Dadascope
Title: Dadascope
Character: Voiceover (archive audio)
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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.