Sentences with phrase «dadaist films»

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For his first extensive presentation in Istanbul, Dirimart opens both galleries, in Dolapdere and Nişantaşı, to the films and photographs of Berlin - based artist Julian Rosefeldt, who has been celebrated worldwide for his film installation Manifesto (2015), a reenactment of historical avant - garde manifestos by artist groups such as the Dadaists, the Situationists, and Futurists, featuring Australian actress Cate Blanchett in thirteen different roles.

Commissioned to accompany Tate Britain's exhibition on the great German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, it comprised a film shown in mock - up of the Lake District cottage where a fictitious grandfather of Prouvost, a conceptual artist and supposed associate of Schwitters, spent his last years, making abominable pottery while trying to dig a tunnel to Africa.

In a second gallery, the film Notes Toward a Model Opera makes fascinating use of the eight model operas of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, to present a Dadaist dance montage to the socialist anthem «The Internationale,» interspersed with absurd slogans, torn maps and pages from Mr. Kentridge's notebooks on three screens.

The history of the world by Zipora Fried would probably look something like the black and white avant - garde films of the Dadaist canon: morphing, jagged, and driven by a language that is neither recognizable nor familiar, emphasizing everyday objects as agents of intellect rather than simple extensions of the hand.