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Dada Film

How does Dada film do it's job of taking art into the 20^th century by moving images?

The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I, and the movement itself could be seen as a reaction to the catastrophe. While most of the European poets and painters joined the war propaganda and glorified the war as the climax of European culture, Dadaists attempted to undermine the cultural values and social myths that WWI promoted. The Dadaists tried to emancipate their audience from cultural idols, taboos, and norms by creating and participating in art that worked to become public manifestations that provoked the audience to become “Dadists” for a brief moment in time. 

most of the dada films seem to have moving inanimate objects,repetition of objets and people, formal and informal balance, and forms of variety along with unity.    

kuleshov effect

Kuleshov effect:

a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s.It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.

(close up of actor, then cuts to a shot of something the actor is thinking about, or looking at. then show them one after another so the audience assumes thats what the actor is looking at or desiring.)