Anemic Cinema (1926)
8/10
A good film to see, but watch it without subtitles
6 May 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Marcel Duchamp's "Anemic Cinema" is a very famous Dadaist experimental short film involving revolving discs. The short cuts back and forth between abstract, hypnotic spirals that slowly develop towards three-dimensional forms, and plates with whimsical messages written on them.

Don't worry too much about if you can speak French... the messages contained on the discs don't really mean anything important, they are puns, rhymes, and alliterations. Only the last disc contains a message that's important, so really I'd recommend NOT watching this movie with subtitles (they only serve to get in the way of the images and make it difficult to actually see the words written on the discs). Remember, this is Dada--it's supposed to ultimately subvert meaning.

--PolarisDiB
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