Europe After the Rain. Dada and Surrealism - ACE066.10

Time-lapse cinematography of clouds, images from the work of the Surrealists, interviews with artists, etc. Film of the Somme, 1916; demonstration the capabilities of a tank. VO: "… the beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of art, but of disgust". Photograph of field hospital showing André Breton who came across a patient who believed the war was entirely fictitious; war footage. Max Ernst speaking about Dada as a "bomb" which shattered previous ideas of art, and saying that museums are trying to bring together the scattered fragments. War footage. Photograph of Hugo Ball performing Karawane in the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, February 1916, the birth of the Dada movement.. Photograph of Hans (Jean) Arp. Designs by Arp, and Madame Torso with a Wavy Hat (1916). VO quotes Dada manifesto: "… Dada is for nature and against art…" Symétrie pathétique / Pathetic Symmetry (1916-1917), embroidery with Sophie Taeuber-Arp; Terrestrial Forms, aka Enak’s Tears (1917). Actor as Tristran Tzara: "… In principle, I am against manifestos – as I am against principles …" Cabaret masks (1919), including A Portrait of Tzara, by Marcel Janco (Iancu); they "represent … passions that are larger than life; the horror of our time is made visible…" Photograph of Arp; VO quotes from his "Law of Chance"; Bois Déchiré / Torn Up Woodcut (1920-1954!); other works including Configuration, and Constellation selon les lois du hazard / Constellation according to the Laws of Chance (c.1930). Actor Tzara explains how to make Dada poems.