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This 3 page paper analyzes the 1927 film by Hans Richter, a short that is a good example of Dadaism in cinema. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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using his film to illustrate two separate but related ideas: that nothing is what it seems, and that inanimate objects can rebel. Discussion "Dada" is the name given to a
movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, as a "response to World War I" (Art history: Dadaism (1916-1924), 2006). It was an "anti-art" movement, since it "rejected the way art was
appreciated and defined in contemporary art scenes" (Art history: Dadaism (1916-1924), 2006). Dadaism had no unifying aesthetics, but Dadaists came together because they shared a "nihilistic attitude towards the traditional
expectations of artists and writers" (Art history: Dadaism (1916-1924), 2006). Dadaism also defies intellectual analysis and is a reaction against Victorian values; the works tend to be "absurd and playful
but at times intuitive and even cryptic" (Art history: Dadaism (1916-1924), 2006). Ghosts before Breakfast is certainly absurd, playful, and cryptic but hardly intuitive; a viewer isnt likely to look
at it and think, "Yes, I understand exactly what hes doing." The film opens with the title, and then the words "The Nazis destroyed the sound version of this film
as "degenerate" art. It shows that even objects revolt against regimentation" appear. (Richter, 1927). The film opens on the face of a clock; its 10 oclock. Time passes in
five-minute jumps, indicating that we are not seeing it objectively. A man fights with his tie, which refuses to stay tied; four bowler hats fly through the air. A man
tries to fire a gun with his eyes closed; his target is another man who falls to pieces without a shot being fired. The first man throws away his gun
only to have it multiply into a pile of guns. A number of men grab for the floating hats and an entire procession of men disappears into a lamppost. Toward
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