Anemic cinema
- Date
1926
- Main contributor
Marcel Duchamp
- Summary
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Marcel Duchamp's only film is an example of "graphic cinema." It wittingly demonstrates the intertwining of the visual and verbal responses to viewing a film. The title itself- "anemic" is an anagram of "cinema." Disks of spirals which create optical illusions alternate with disks containing elaborately obscene puns. Duchamp condenses the whole range of sexual elements involving emergence and penetration of a plane surface into a model association between the illusions of gyrating cones and the allusions to breasts, genitals and defecation. --WorldCat
- Collection
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.