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L’Étoile de Mer / The Starfish
Artwork: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), L’Étoile de Mer / The Starfish (1928). Video. 15 min. Sourced from Kino Video’s Avant-garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s (2005).
Title L’Étoile de Mer / The Starfish Date 1928 Authors Man Ray Type Video recording
B/W
Digital record
Contributors Jacques-André Boiffard
Alice Prin
Robert Desnos
Paul Mercer
Bruce Bennett
André de la Rivière
Publisher Kino Video
Dimensions 15 min

b.1890, Philadelphia; d.1976, Paris

This special collections item was sourced from Avant-garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s (2005), a two-DVD collection of short films from the Rohauer Collection. It was featured in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance curated by Kathryn Smith and Roger van Wyk, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, December 12, 2009–February 28, 2010. It is indexed here as part of Smith and Van Wyk’s revisiting of the Dada South? Archive of materials at A4 Arts Foundation.

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