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Dominican Rep. 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements
- Original title
- 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements
- Year
- 1957
- Running time
- 80 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Jean Arp
- Paul Bowles
- Ceal Bryson
- Alexander Calder
Jean Cocteau- Willem de Vogel
Marcel Duchamp- Richard Hulsenbeck
- Yves Tanguy
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Genre
- Drama | Experimental Cinema. Chess
- Synopsis
- Like his earlier Dreams that Money Can Buy, Richter’s 8 x 8 engaged the talents of an array of artists with whom he had associated over the years, including Jean Arp, Jean Cocteau, Yves Tanguy, and Richard Huelsenbeck. The title refers to the 8 x 8 arrangement of squares on a chessboard and the film’s equivalent segmentation into a “Chess Sonata in 8 Movements.” It is a tribute to the game Richter loved: “a game of chance and accident, kings and pawns, retreats and successes—in short, the thousand and one combinations of life.”
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