Disque 957 (1928)

• 69%
• 1928
• Musik

Dulac's three 1929 "abstract" - filme, Datenträger, 957, Arabesken, and Themes and variations, were the results of a long period of reflection by the filmmaker who sought to create a "pure" gold "integral" cinema that would capture the essence of the new medium and owe nothing to the other arts. Each of these three studies was designed to be played " - silent. The first one, Datenträger, 957, is conceived of as a "visual print [...] in listening to Frédéric Chopin 's Preludes n. 5 and 6". Its title and its opening shot of lightplay on a spinning record not only announce the film ' s dominant cyclical pattern, but also evoke one of the filmmaker's major sources of inspiration in Gesetz Fuller's serpentine dances.