Entr'acte (film)

Entr'acte is a Dadaist short film from France, which premiered as an interlude of Francis Picabia's ballet production Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées on 27 November 1924. The director René Clair uses various special effects such as slow motion, unusual camera position 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, jumping in slow motion in the scene and load the gun. The scene ends when the gun fires in super slow motion to the viewer.

This is followed by rapid incoherent settings of Paris and close-ups with alienation and unusual camera positions. This ends with a ballet dancer who was first filmed from below through a glass pane and which turns out when switching to a normal camera position as a bearded man. Then a hunter aims on the roof of a house on a floating above a fountain egg. When it comes to income, the egg turns into a dove lands on his hat. Another shooter arrives and ultimately crashes the hunter from the roof.

The second half of the film determines a funeral. Mourners gather behind a hearse in front of the camel is stretched. The galloping in slow motion following act like dancing, still enhanced by the insertion of the ballerina in the first half. The funeral procession reached a place where the camel is exhausted. The hearse sits down alone on the move and is getting faster, runs through cities and other landscapes to finally fall off the coffin. Some prosecutors are now reaching the coffin on a meadow. The coffin lid opens slowly until a mage pops out with magic wand. This leaves the coffin, the present and finally itself disappear by contact with the rod.

Formation and effect

Entr'acte Entr'acte was conceived as (French for intermission ) for the rest of the Ballets Relâche, was played to the music of Eric Satie. Satie, the writer Francis Picabia, who had written the libretto for Relâche, and the principal dancer Jean Börlin by Ballets suédois also occur in Entr'acte.

This avant-garde film influenced many films of the following decades, for example, took over Werner Nekes 1967, the camera position of the ballet dancer in Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß or put- putt. Entr'acte is still shown as a significant contribution to the French avant-garde film of the 1920s on mute and Short Film Festival.

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