Ballet mecanique (1924) Fernand Leger - Part 1

Nice video, with nice sound. Part 1, Enjoy!!!!!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ballet
• mecanique
• 1924
• Fernand
• Leger

[avrilarte]

I don't agree...there's a point...they were fascinated for movement, city sounds, technology, kinethic...there's a sense...Léger experimented with cubism and futurism, not dada.

[composer333]

@EricBarbman I have always wondered why something as old as this (1924) and those works that are older (Russolo, Schoenberg, Webern etc. ) are still so anger-causing and creative of such animosity. It is time we deal with the horror/humor of the 20th century & its art--or we will never ever really know ourselves and we will remain forever ignorant.

[Yastreblyansky]

I don't think you want to "explain" it in that way. Of course he is showing the romance of machines, and the other shots help to bring it out, so there is an implied comparison. But look in the film for its musical structure: repetition and contrast, things turning upside down, themes that vanish and return.

[Reflectinglight18]

Can someone please explain this to me? Is he making some sort of comparison between the natural world and machines?

[MsLifesize]

I can't stop watching this. It is so close to reality, in some way, that you can't fight disliking it at first. But if you watch it more often, you'll start liking it. Just like you started liking reality after you got used to living in it.

[sclapione]

@Awesomesauces Anything outside of formulaic would probably give a Radiohead fan a headache

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@obscurexdirux Bollocks

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@LatestUFOSightings Dude, your page is FULL of visual and audial S-H-I-T ... what are you on ? Totally unaware and clueless or what ?

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@bcmthorpe3 stick to watching videos for your homework then

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@xenialarouge there's tons in dada that one sees here ....

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@chinaenkimono  are you more into X factor ?

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@avrilarte  definately pre-dada aspects ....