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  • TITLE: 8 X 8: A CHESS SONATA IN 8 MOVEMENTS
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  • CAST: Jean Arp, Yves Tanguay, Jean Cocteau
  • DIRECTOR: Richter, Hans
  • LENGTH: 70 min.
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  • RELEASE_DATE: 1957
  • GENRE_MAIN: Surrealist
  • GENRE_SECOND: Personal
  • GENRE_THIRD: Avant Garde
  • COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: Switzerland
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  • SOUNDTRACK: Sound
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  • RIGHTS_TV: TV
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  • TERRITORY_DOMESTIC: U.S.
  • TERRITORY_CANADA: Canada
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  • SYNOPSIS: Photographed by Arnold Eagle. Sound direction by Richter with Robert Abramson, Bebe and Louis Barron, John Gruen, Douglas Townsend. Lyrics by John Latouche, Sung by Oscar Brand. With Jean Arp, Jacqueline Matisse, Yves Tanguay, Lulien Levy, Richard Huyelsenbeck, Alexander Calder, Ceal Bryson, Willem de Vogel, W. Sandberg, Dorothea and Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Eugene Pellegrini, Paul Bowles, Achmed el Yacoubi, Jose L. Sert, Frederick Kiesler, Paul Weiner. 8 X 8: A CHESS SONATA IN 8 MOVEMENTS is the second of Richter's elaborate cinematic collaborations with other artists, following DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY. Taking the title 8 X 8 from the dimensions of a chess board, the film pays homage to Lewis Carroll's use of chess in THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. It begins with the statement by Richter that "We use chess, as did Carroll, as the plane, the board on which all things which happen in life are also happening...transformed, symbolic - but not less real." Using humor and chance, Richter creates a heavily symbolic, surreal world where kings, queens, and other players on the chess board act out some of life's episodes. Included are sculptor Alexander Calder constructing mobiles and setting them to motion, painter Max Ernst pursuing his wife, Dorothea, throught the canyons of Lower Manhattan and a rocky western landscape in an overplayed domestic struggle, and writer Jean Cocteau playing a pawn who whimsically becomes a queen. 8 X 8 is an imaginative journey through the symbols and satire of Surrealism.

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