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Le Retour à la Raison (1923)

Le Retour à la Raison poster
Original title
Le retour à la raison
Directed by
Man Ray
Genre
drama
Country
France
Runtime
3 min
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 112 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a very short, abstract film made up of moving textures and photographic patterns, including a woman's bare torso. It has no story and feels like a visual experiment.

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What happens

Le Retour à la raison (French for Return to Reason) is a 1923 short film directed by Man Ray. It consists of animated textures, rayographs and the torso of Kiki of Montparnasse. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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