This film was made by Hans Richter for the first Basel habitat exhibition to show the innovative aspects of modern architecture.

The remastering of this film was made by the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana (therefore the titles are in Italian).

The film is originally silent but is here accompanied by a recent soundtrack.

698MB | 24 min 8 s | 1422×1080 | mkv

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Language(s):Italian Intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Berlin-born Hans Richter – Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker – was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. Richter assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators of Dreams That Money Can Buy, his most ambitious attempt to bring the work of the European avant-garde to a wider cinema audience. Among its admirers is film director David Lynch.

Joe, a young man down on his luck, discovers he has the power to create dreams, and sets up a business selling them to others. The ‘dreams’ he gives to his clients are the creations of Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder and Richter himself, and the result is by turns playful, hypnotic, satirical, charming and nightmarish. Dreams That Money Can Buy is a film in seven segments namely:

Desire (Director, Writer – Max Ernst)
The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart (Director, Writer – Fernand Léger)
Ruth, Roses and Revolvers (Director, Writer – Man Ray)
Discs (Director, Writer – Marcel Duchamp)
Ballet (Director, Writer – Alexander Calder)
Circus (Director, Writer – Alexander Calder)
Narcissus (Director, Writer – Hans Richter)

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Language:English
Subtitles:English

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Dadascope is a comprehensive portrait of the Dada movement with its specific techniques of sound and visual clash, word puns, chess, dice and other games of chance. Richter stated, “There is no story, no psychological implication except such as the onlooker puts into the imagery. But it is not accidental either, more a poetry of images built with and upon associations. In other words the film allows itself the freedom to play upon the scale of film possibilities, freedom for which Dada always stood – and still stands.”

Hans Richter (1888-1976), painter, graphic artist, filmmaker, and producer was one of the founders of the Dada movement. Richter opposed traditional approaches to art. His avant-garde style to filmmaking and art paved the way for many artists to come.

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Poems in German, French and English, written and performed by well-known Dada artists: Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Walter Mehring, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara and Wladimir Vogel. Poems were recited against a backdrop of “sound and visual clash, word puns, chess, dice and other games of chance.” According to Richter, “To these poems I made a film collage. To these Anti-poems, I have made an Anti-film. There is no story, no psychological implication except such as the onlooker puts into the imagery.”

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https://nitro.download/view/E341210AAC0286E/dadascope.mkv

Language(s):German, Dada
Subtitles:none

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Every Day was a film that German avant-garde filmmaker Hans Richter made as part of a film production course run by the Film Society. It features filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein playing a policeman, whilst Len Lye and Basil Wright provided technical assistance. These contributions reflect the sense of internationalism occurring at this time in British film circles. The film was completed in 1929 under the title The Daily Round, but was never released because Richter was unhappy with the result. Richter began to rework the film in 1975, but died before its completion. It was finally restored, with the addition of a soundtrack, after his death.

Richter made his name making purely abstract films, but had started to become interested in social issues in the late 1920s, which led to him working with more concrete material. Every Day is an avant-garde documentary, which portrays the world of white-collar work in an experimental manner. A series of daily events are portrayed – such as getting out of bed, going to work, working, and seeking entertainment in the evening – but are made strange by the continual use of repetition, montage and fragmented imagery.

Every Day depicts the everyday world of office work as dull and mechanical: repetitive work tasks are often repeated to stress this, whilst continual shots of an office clock emphasise tedium and slavery to routine. The way in which the film builds up an increasingly escalating editing tempo suggests that the monotonous routine is leading to inner tension.

At one stage in the film there is a brief respite from the dull routine, which is portrayed through stop-motion photography. This occurs at lunchtime when a close up of a meal is shown: food begins to move around the plate as though dancing. Here, inanimate objects assume lifelike properties and revolt against daily routine, thus expressing the sublimated desires of the workers. The idea of inanimate objects taking on a life of their own had already been portrayed by Richter in his earlier film, Ghosts Before Breakfast (Germany, 1926).

Towards the end of Every Day Richter begins to repeat previous elements of the film, but at a faster pace. Such a strategy reinforces the prevailing mood of tension and also indicates that every day is the same. Workers at a cigarette factory and telephone operators are also intercut with these repetitions, as though stressing the rather repetitive nature of most daily work.

Jamie Sexton

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A masterpiece of experimental film and a projection of the surrealist vision into cinema by its outstanding artists. Described by Richter as “part Freud, part Lewis Carroll,” it is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. This chess-sonata is played by a host of artists including Paul Bowles, Jean Cocteau, Julian Levy, Jacqueline Matisse, Jose Sert, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Alexander Calder. “What interested me is the poetry of images, the melody and rhythm of forms and colors” (Hans Richter).

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Eight by Eight “A Chess Sonata in 8 Movement”, with music by John Latoche and Oscar Brand, is the second of Richter’s elaborate cinematic collaborations. Richter pays homage to Lewis Carroll’s use of chess in Through the Looking Glass. Using humor and chance, Richter creates a heavily symbolic, surreal world where kings, queens, and other players on the chess board act out some of life’s episodes. Included are sculptor Alexander Calder constructing mobiles and setting them to motion, painter Max Ernst pursuing his wife, Dorothea, through the canyons of lower Manhattan and a rocky western landscape in an overplayed domestic struggle, and writer Jean Cocteau playing a pawn who whimsically becomes a queen. Eight by Eight is an imaginative journey through the symbols and satire of Surrealism.

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EIGHT BY EIGHT or “A Chess Sonata in 8 Movement”

1957. 70 minutes. English language only

By Hans Richter in collaboration with Jean Cocteau. Photographed by Arnold Eagle. Lyrics by John Latouche. Sung by Oscar Brand. With Jean Arp, Jacqueline Matisse, Yves Tanguey, Julien Levy, Richard Huelsenbeck, Alexander Calder, Ceal Bryson, Willem de Vogel, W. Sandberg, Dorothea and Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Eugene Pellegrini, Paul Bowles, Achmed el Yaccoubi, Jose L. Sert, Frederick Kiesler, Paul Weiner. A comprehensive portrait of the Dada movement: a surreal world on a giant chessboard.

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Three shorts by Hans Richter.

Inflation, 1927 link
Zweigroschenzauber, 1929 link
Rennsymphonie, 1929 link

http://nitroflare.com/view/043126EFAB83F4C/Hans_Richter_-_Three_Shorts.rar

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3 Films by Hans Richter.
ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929) (00:03:25)
RHYTHM 23 (1923) (00:03:22)
TWO PENCE MAGIC (1930) (00:02:17)

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