Mystères du château de Dé, Les

What happens if one gives a dadaist a camera, a modernist château, the cooperation of the patrons and château-owners, and friends? A pastiche of shaky travel images, poetic intertitles, absurd images of people with no faces (stockings or masks), inexplicable action, recurring episodes of dice-rolling, swimming in the handsome pool, exercise, and interiors. Footage cobbled together. Some good puns (piscinema) and such, but mostly tedious, full of dark, inexpert photography, obscure poetic tags, and gratuitous absurdity—much like a the work of a pretentious art-school person with his or her first camera and some film stock to shoot. Still, it's probably one of the first of such things, and thus has a place in film history.

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