Description
Artistic cross-fertilisation was central to Man Ray's creative practice. He reveled in the possibilities opened up by breaking the rules of any given medium and allowing the qualities of one to facilitate the reinvention and reimagining of another. He created painterly photographs, photographic paintings, kinetic sculptures, and poetic cinema, consistently occupying the spaces between. In this sense, his cinematic work resists any straightforward classification, and scholars have struggled for a century to pin down his four films (1923 – 1929) to qualities associated with either Dada or Surrealism. In this presentation, I discuss Man Ray's films in relation to his interest in objects – the objects he represented as well as the object of film. I consider the enduring influence of his material concerns on contemporary experimental filmmaking and offer some fresh insights into his paracinematic practice.| Period | 16 Nov 2024 |
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| Event title | Cinema by Other Means, a symposium |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Basel, SwitzerlandShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |