Entr'acte (film)

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Movie
German title Entr'acte
Original title Entr'acte
Satie & Picabia, Clair & Biorlin (prologue de Relache) .jpg
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1924
length about 20 minutes
Rod
Director René Clair
script Francis Picabia , René Clair
production Rolf de Maré
music Erik Satie
camera Jimmy Berliet
occupation

Entr'acte is a Dadaist short film from France that premiered on November 27, 1924 as an interlude in Francis Picabia's ballet production Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris . The director René Clair uses various special effects such as slow motion , unusual camera positions and multiple exposures to create surreal film sequences .

action

In the first scene a cannon moves independently on a roof in a city. Two men, Erik Satie and Francis Picabia, jump into the scene in slow motion and load the cannon. The scene ends when the cannon fires at the viewer in super slow motion.

This is followed by quick, disjointed shots of Paris and detailed shots with alienations and unusual camera positions. This ends with a ballet dancer who was first filmed from below through a pane of glass and who, when changing to a normal camera position, turns out to be a bearded man. Then a hunter on the roof of a house aims at an egg hovering over a fountain. When he gets to the shot, the egg transforms into a pigeon that lands on his hat. Another shooter arrives and ultimately the hunter falls from the roof.

The second half of the film defines a funeral procession. The mourners gather behind a hearse to which a camel is harnessed. The following, running in slow motion, seem like dancers, reinforced by the fade-in of the ballerina from the first half. The funeral procession reaches a place where the camel is harnessed. The hearse starts moving on its own and gets faster and faster, traverses cities and other landscapes, until the coffin falls down. Some of the pursuers now reach the coffin in a meadow. The coffin lid opens slowly until a magician with a wand pops out. This makes the coffin, those present and finally himself disappear by touching the staff.

Origin and Effect

Entr'acte was designed as Entracte ( French for intermediate act ) for the break in the ballet Relâche , to which music by Eric Satie was played. Satie, the writer Francis Picabia, who wrote the libretto for Relâche , and the solo dancer Jean Börlin of the Ballets Suédois also appear in Entr'acte .

This avant-garde film influenced many films in the following decades, for example Werner Nekes took over the camera position of the ballet dancer in 1967 in black grouse brown grouse black grouse white grouse red chicken white or put-putt . Entr'acte is still shown today as an essential contribution to the French film avant-garde of the 1920s on silent and short film days.

literature

  • Ted Perry: Entr'acte : Dada as Real Illusion. In: Ted Perry (Ed.): Masterpieces of Modern Cinema . Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2006, ISBN 978-0-253-21858-2 , pp. 60-84.
  • Frank Dersch: Entr'acte between Dadaism and Surrealism . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-69487-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sally Banes: Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism . Wesleyan University Press, Hanover 1994, ISBN 0-8195-6268-8 , pp. 80-81.
  2. mitternachtskino.de ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 26, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mitternachtskino.de
  3. www.mitternachtskino.de ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 26, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mitternachtskino.de
  4. wernernekes.de , accessed October 26, 2010
  5. Program of the Silent Film Music Days Erlangen, 2004