Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema
10.19.2011
05:05 pm

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Anemic Cinema


 
Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema is recalled as a collaboration between Duchamp and Man Ray, but it was really a collaboration between May Ray and Duchamp’s female alter ego Rrose Selavy (c’est la vie, geddit?). It was made with Duchamp’s kinetic sculptures, the Rotoreliefs, which I have written about before here. The title Anemic Cinema is a near palindrome.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:

Dreams Money Can Buy: Surrealist Feature Film from 1947

Posted by Richard Metzger | 4 Comments
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Oct 19, 2011
bob jones says:

Very Good, thanks! The French puns are hard going. The month of eskimos etc.

Oct 19, 2011
manc says:

musician credits?

Oct 19, 2011
gp says:

Avant-garde optical erotisism
of the avant-garden variety

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http://oi52.tinypic.com/2iqhh0n.jpg

Oct 20, 2011
jobriath says:

Rrose Selavy:

The double R means it’s pronounced like “air rose,” that is, eros.

So the actual pun is “eros (erotica/sex), that’s life.”

Just putting my worthless liberal arts degree to some use.

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