Man Ray on Film

In conjunction with the exhibition Alias Man Ray: The Art Of Reinvention at The Jewish Museum, Anthology will be screening a program of the films Man Ray created or worked on during the course of his career. A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career - Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer - and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker. Best known as a photographer, Man Ray in fact moved from one medium to another as he defied aesthetic boundaries. Like his fellow Dadaist and close friend Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray took delight in playing games and confounding expectations. With his steadfast independence and his need to explore every artistic avenue, Man Ray forged a vision that changed the very way art was conceived.
ALIAS Man Ray: The Art Of Reinvention will be on display through March 14, 2010 at The Jewish Museum, located at 5th Avenue at 92nd Street. For more information, please visit: www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Very special thanks to Andrew Ingall & Jennifer Mock (The Jewish Museum).
Man Ray
LE Retour ? La Raison (1923, 2 minutes, 16mm)
?TOILE De Mer (1927, 13 minutes, 16mm)
EMAK Bakia (1927, 18 minutes, 35mm)
LES Myst?Res De CH?Teau De D? (1929, 27 minutes, 35mm, with French intertitles)
Fernand L?ger with Dudley Murphy
BALLET M?Canique? (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
Ren? Clair & Francis Picabia
ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm)
Marcel Duchamp with Man Ray
ANEMIC Cinema (1926, 7 minutes, 35mm)
Total running time: ca. 115 minutes.