Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy is hailed as a masterpiece of early avant-garde filmmaking. The opening credits features a title card with the phrase "Charlot présente le ballet mécanique" along with a cutout figure all modern movie-goers [...]
French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier's groundbreaking contributions to cinema helped to define the country's "first" avant-garde or "Impressionist" movement, which began to take shape in 1917. While his futuristic fairy tale L'Inhumaine (1924) is lauded as an Impressionist masterpiece, in a way the [...]
Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film. The film has undergone a 2K digital restoration from 35mm for the Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Blu-ray/DVD collection with music by George Antheil from original [...]
By Fernand Léger Every effort in the line of spectacle or moving picture should be concentrated on bringing out the values of the object—even at the expense of the subject and of every other so called photographic element of […]
