8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
March 15, 1957Release Date
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
March 15, 1957Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Hans Arp
Paul Bowles
Jean Cocteau
Director
Marcel Duchamp
Co-Director
Max Ernst
Man Ray
Frederick Kiesler
The Minotaur
Dorothea Ernst
Darius Milhaud
Richard Huelsenbeck
Yves Tanguy
Hans Richter
Writer / Director
Robert Abramson
Original Music Composer
Douglas Townsend
Original Music Composer
John Gruen
Original Music Composer
Alexander Calder
Jaqueline Matisse
Willem de Vogel
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8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements is a 1957 American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, with contributing work by Marcel Duchamp and Jean Cocteau that was released on March 15, 1957, in New York City. It features original music by Robert Abramson, John Gruen and Douglas Townsend.
Described by Richter as "part Freud, part Lewis Carroll", it is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. "8 × 8" in the title refers to the layout of a chessboard.
While living in New York, Hans Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) and 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in collaboration with Max Ernst, Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.