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Released
1923 · FILM

Return to Reason

Directed by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
3 min
Language
FR
Drama

Synopsis

This experimental film features white specks and shapes moving over a black background, along with a light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin) and a rotating eggcrate. It is considered one of the first Dadaist films.

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Principal cast & crew: 2

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Man Ray

Also known as

  • The Return to Reasonen

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