Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. Three people stand on a road, out of focus. Use the HTML below. A castle is perched on a hilltop. (... that one ought to see them only in a dream or in the instant of love.) Below it, a posh, modern villa. The film cuts to a female selling newspapers in the street, this is André de la Rivière in drag. They decide ...

IMDb says it runs for 21 minutes, but all version I found were shorter, maybe less frames per second. "Beautiful." The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, ...

A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day.

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized (he is identified by the number 9314 written on his forehead),... For most of The Starfish, one of the experimental/surrealist films from the painter Man Ray, we see everything through a kind of gauze or fuzzy filter over the camera. Éternèbre is a portmanteau of éternel (eternal) and ténèbre (darkness)) Two people stand on a road, out of focus.

Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Shortly before sailing to Cuba on 21 February 1928,Man Ray used a gelatine dry-plate process to achieve the effect of textured glass and render the spectral images of the film like a drawing or rudimentary painting, thus also resolving his concern about the censorship of nude scenes.Originally a silent film, recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Desnos's scenario, long believed to have been lost, was found in the New York With Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos.

Black and white rectangular images fade in and out of the screen. The film depicts a couple acting through scenes that are shot out of focus, and with Desnos himself as the second man in the final scene. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. ... qu' on ne devrait les voir qu' en rêve ou à l'instant de l'amour.

Belle, belle comme une fleur de verre (Beautiful, beautiful like a glass flower)We rejoin the man as he ascends the staircase to the upper bedroom in the house, leaving the starfish at the foot of the stairs. From this point the couple retire to the upper bedroom of a house and the female undresses and retires, at which point the male bids her farewell. A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. 1 of 1 people found this review helpful. He says, "Adieu." Si les fleurs étaient en verre (If the flowers were made of glass) "How beautiful she is." The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear. Each disk is labelled and can be read as ...

"L'étoile de mer" or "The Starfish" is a 15-minute short film from almost 90 years ago. More images: starfish, the girl. After opening to the couple walking along a road, the scene cuts to a caption

Then, an eye.

Meanwhile, far from Paris, two men with masked faces play dice in a bar. Nous sommes à jamais perdus dans le désert de l'éternèbre. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. Was this review helpful to you? It's replaced by a spinning disk. Repeatedly.

L'Étoile de mer is a 1928 film directed by Man Ray and based on a short poem and longer scenario, both written by Robert Desnos. An absolute dada movie.

The film cuts to the woman brandishing a large knife superimposed with the starfish. (We are forever lost in the desert of eternal darkness. The affair is over, and the film brings to a close.

Directed by Man Ray. Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in a jar, city scenes, newspapers, tugboats. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. Followed by a montage of various rotating objects, including the starfish in a jar. Almost all of the scenes in this film are shot either off a mirror like the final shot, or through what appears to be diffused and textured glass. Two people stand on a road, out of focus.

The female appears in a mirror with the word 'belle', which shatters. L'Étoile de mer est un court-métrage surréaliste de Man Ray tourné en 1928

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. "How beautiful she is."

Les étoiles de mer (Asteroidea) ou Astéries forment une classe d'échinodermes, des animaux marins caractérisés par une silhouette rayonnante et un squelette calcaire formé de pièces articulées.On en dénombre au moins 1 500 espèces [1] réparties dans plus de trente familles vivant dans tous les océans.

Two people stand on a road, out of focus. A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice. The film then changes focus, following newspapers being blown in the wind while a man attempts to pick them up.