DadA (short 1967) ☛ Director: Greta Deses, Writer: Marcel Janco In April 1967, during the Cannes Film Festival, Greta Deses presented the documentary titled “Dada“, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Dada movement. This short film included a representation of one of the sessions that took place at the Cabaret Voltaire… Read More
Nicolae by Mihai Grecu – Documentary “The late dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who died in 1989, resurrects in 2021 as a hologram to address the contemporary inhabitants of a small Romanian village. What happens next is captured in a hybrid documentary, observing the effects this unusual encounter has on the people involved, many of whom are… Read More
Emmanuelle ☛ Queen of French Erotic Cinema @arteTV | Clélia Cohen, 2020, arteTV, 53 min In 1974, the French erotic film Emmanuelle broke audience records: almost 350 million viewers worldwide and a twelve-year run on the Champs Elysées in Paris. After the success of the sexually explicit Last Tango in Paris, Emmanuelle appeared at a… Read More
„Tzara.Dada.Azi” – 125 de ani de la nașterea lui Tristan Tzara/ חגיגת 125 שנה להולדתו של טריסטן צארה În contextul celebrării a 125 de ani de la nașterea lui Tristan Tzara, Institutul Cultural Român de la Tel Aviv a organizat, în colaborare cu Muzeul Janco-Dada din Ein Hod, Asociația Scriitorilor Israelieni de Limbă Franceză și… Read More
The Independence of Romania ( 1912) – Independenţa României, silent film Independenţa României (“The Independence of Romania”), subtitled The Romanian-Russo-Turkish War 1877, is a Romanian 1912 silent film directed by Aristide Demetriade. In December 1911, the theatrical magazine Rampa published a note under the heading The Cinema in the Theatre (signed by V. Scânteie) indicating… Read More
Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain documentary (1978) ☛ This documentary examines the work of the leading exponents of Dada and Surrealism, from the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. International in scope and diverse in artistic output, both Dada and Surrealism were artistic, literary and intellectual movements of the early 20th… Read More
Kurt Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) – Documentary Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came… Read More
