Between Acts
(Entr’acte)
中場休息
Synopsis
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Considered a classic of 1920s French avant-garde cinema and arguably the most important Dadaist film, René Clair’s Entr’acte was filmed for the premiere of Francis Picabia’s Dadaist ballet Relâche [Between Acts] in 1924. The beginning of the short film served as the prologue to the ballet: French composer Eric Satie and Francis Picabia jump into the frame in slow motion and aim a cannon at the audience. The rest of Entr’acte was screened during the intermission between the two acts of the ballet, with such famously illogical sequencing as the deflation and inflation of balloon-heads, the ballet dancer photographed from below, Dadaist painter Marcel Duchamp and photographer Man Ray playing chess, a hunter aiming at an egg above the fountain, men and women running after a camel-drawn hearse in slow and rapid motion, for which Satie composed a synchronized film score. (Screening with Paris Asleep and An Andalousian Dog)
電影簡介
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1920年代法國前衛電影經典，達達主義最重要的電影作品。《中場休息》是René Clair 為1924年Francis Picabia編寫的達達主義芭蕾舞劇《今晚停演》(Relâche)拍的短片。短片一開頭為舞劇揭開序幕：作曲家Erik Satie與Francis Picabia慢動作跳入鏡，向觀眾發射大炮。其餘部份則於中場休息時間放映，劇情抽象、不合邏輯，恰是這部達達實驗電影的迷人之處。有名橋段包括洩氣充氣的人頭氣球、從下方拍攝的芭蕾舞者、達達藝術家杜象（Marcel Duchamp）與攝影師曼雷（Man Ray）對弈、獵人瞄準噴泉上的雞蛋、眾人慢速快速跟著駱駝拉的靈車跑。還有Satie配合短片節奏譜寫、神采奕奕的配樂！（同場加映：沉睡的巴黎及安德魯的一條狗）
