Movies: Hans Richter
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
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An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....
- 1947
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)
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An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created...
- 1928
Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
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Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine....
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
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A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....
- 1921
Rhythm 21 (1921)
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Abstract animated short film. Grey and white squares change size and shape on a black background....
- 1955
Intermediate Landing in Paris (1955)
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Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the fre...
- 1929
Every Day (1929)
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Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of routine office work....
- 1931
Europa Radio (1931)
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Commissioned by Philips, Europa Radio celebrates the company’s experimental PCJJ shortwave radio station in Eindhoven that went on air in 1927 and broadcasted to Europe as well as the rest of the world in various languages. Hans Richter’s film covers...
- 1928
Race Symphony (1928)
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In Race Symphony (1928), Richter documents and celebrates a typical day at the German races, where a sophisticated people turn up in droves to gape, gasp, place a bet, and celebrate a well-deserved win....
- 1958
Passionate Pastime (1958)
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Hans Richter's documentary on the game of chess. Narrated by Vincent Price. Outlines the history of chess from ancient times to the present and traces its origins in India, China, and Persia. Prints, painting, illuminated manuscripts, live photograph...
- 1923
Rhythm 23 (1923)
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We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background....
- 1930
The New Apartment (1930)
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A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA, to demonstrate innovative aspects of modern architecture and highlight their differences from the ...
- 1961
Dadascope (1961)
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Free-associative images are juxtaposed with disorienting poetry in Richter's late work. The film is visual dynamite: Upside-down and reversed footage, play with shadows and light, billiards and dice and balloons-- suggestive and surreal images. Tenet...
- 1929
Two Pence Magic (1929)
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Two Penny Magic (Zweigroschenzauber) starting off with a little magic trick. It then presents an array of images from swimmers, bicyclers, murderers, airplanes in flight, boxers, lovers, runners, becoming in the end a collection of images in a magazi...
- 1934
Der Springer von Pontresina (1934)
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- 1957
8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter as "part Freud, part Lewis Carroll" and filmed partially on the lawn of Duchamp's summer house in S...
- 1926
Film Study (1926)
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Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads....
- 1933
Metall (1933)
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Directed by Hans Richter....
- 1974
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1974)
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The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Herbert Kline. The film shows footage of great modern artists in their studios creating and commenting on their work, with narration and commentary by Orson Well...
- 1933
Mädels von heute (1933)
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