Ballet Mechanique is a 1924 Experimental Project by Fernand Leger, composed by George Antheil.
Fernand Leger was a developer of distinctive versions of Cubism in his paintings, often
using stylised machine parts. His use of these machine parts contributed to the central principal in Ballet Mechanique.
Fernand contradicts the initial denotation of Ballet in his project as we expect flowing dancers rather than machine parts creating a mechanical dance.
Even though Fernand uses objects such as hats, bottles and kitchen utensils he juxtaposes these into moving like machine parts. He also uses human actions and turns these into mechanical gestures.
I enjoyed watching this abstract film and it was very inspirational for me. Even though we are at the early stages of developing the project I would like to use some of Fernands techniques in our film(project). His various amount of scenes go well with his idea of machinery such as the mechanical movement of the women on the swing and the opening and closing of the eye. The only concern I have with this film is the over exposure of some on the scenes, however, Fernand had a very little budget and this comes under Experimental films idea with some of the projects being funded by the director/producer/cameraman themselves.
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