Ballet Mécanique
Artwork: Fernand Léger, Ballet Mécanique (1924). Video. 11 min. Sourced from Kino Video’s Avant-garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s (2005).
Title
Ballet Mécanique
Date
1924
Authors
Fernand Léger
Type
Video recording
B/W
Digital record
B/W
Digital record
Contributors
Paul Mercer
Publisher
Kino Video
Dimensions
11 min
b.1881, Argetan; d.1955, Gif-sur-Yvette
This special collections item was sourced from Avant-garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s (2005), a two-DVD collection of short films from the Rohauer Collection. It was featured in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance curated by Kathryn Smith and Roger van Wyk, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, December 12, 2009–February 28, 2010. It is indexed here as part of Smith and Van Wyk’s revisiting of the Dada South? Archive of materials at A4 Arts Foundation.
