Alexander Calder’s fascination with the circus began in his mid-twenties, when he published illustrations in a New York journal of Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, for which he held a year’s pass. It was in Paris in 1927 that he created the miniature circus celebrated in this film – tiny wire performers, ingeniously articulated to walk tightropes, dance, lift weights, and engage in acrobatics in the ring. The Parisian avant-garde would gather in Calder’s studio to see the circus in operation. It was, as critic James Johnson Sweeney noted, `a laboratory in which some of the most original features of his later work were to be developed.’ This film exudes the great personal charm of Calder himself, moving and working the tiny players like a ringmaster, while his wife winds up the gramophone in the background. The Circus is now housed at the Whitney Museum in New York.

Video Specs:
Codec: DivX 3 Low-Motion
Video Bitrate: 1523 kb/s
Qf: 0.147 bits/pixel
Resolution: 720x576 (1.25:1) [=5:4]
Framerate: 25 fps
Runtime: 00:18:34 (27,861 fr)

Audio Specs:
Codec: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Bitrate: 192 kb/s (96/ch, stereo) CBR
Fs: 44100 Hz

https://nitro.download/view/9B83F0185C1B177/Calder_-_Le_cirque.avi

Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:None

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