Dear Frameworkers, I dare to seek your advice or comments on a rather curious version of Marcel Duchamp's Anémic Cinéma. This version is said to contain footage supposedly coming from Eisenstein's October and could be tracked down to Denmark (although it might not have originated there).
Bruce Posner, who curated the Unseen Cinema project which has used this very version of Anémic Cinéma from the Danske Filminstitut for a DVD release (but with the October footage edited out in the end), was kind enough to point me in the direction of Tuby Mussman's writings on the film. The thing is that I'm trying to find any mention of this version (e.g. describing other imagery then the rotating disks), but haven't been successful with Mussman so far. What I know about is Bozena Jablonska's description including the October footage in Alicja Helman (ed.), Z dziejow awangardy filmowej, Katowice 1976. I'm not hoping for any detailed history of why and how this version came about, but at least by knowing about literature mentioning it could help me in establishing it's prevalence. Please excuse my potential overlooking of some otherwise well known sources, certain writings are hard to track down here from Prague, but nonetheless I believe I went through most of the relevant Duchampian/avantgarde film literature I am aware of. Neither was I was able to find any mention of this in any of the journals related to film archiving etc. Also my apologies go to those following both AMIA-L and Frameworks list, sorry for cross-posting. With many thanks for any tips or leads on this, Matej Strnad *CAS/FAMU * *Center for Audiovisual Studies,* *Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts* *Prague, CZ*
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