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Le Grand cirque Calder, 1927

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Original title: Le Grand cirque Calder, 1927
Year: 1955
Running time: 43 min.
Country: France
Director: Jean Painlevé
Cast: Documentary, Self: Alexander Calder
Cinematography: Claude Beausoleil
Producer: Cinégraphie Documentaire
Genre: Documentary | Experimental Cinema. Circus. Half-length Film
Synopsis: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) lived in Paris between 1926 and 1933. During these years the young artist created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature circus (1926-1931). More than twenty years later Jean Painleve made Le Grande Cirque Calder 1927, begun in 1953 and completed in 1955.

Calder playfully manipulates his miniatures in front of a small audience of friends: pulling strings, activating levers, turning cranks and releasing springs. A horse trots around the ring as a trick rider catapults onto its back. Trapeze artists latch arms, fly through the air and then drop into a net. A lion roars before taking its handler's head in its mouth; an elephant blows sawdust from a pan. A dancer, naked but for some strategically placed fringe, seductively undulates. In the closing act two chariots and four fleet stallions set off on a sweaty race.

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Le Grand cirque Calder, 1927

1955

Jean Painlevé

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