Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable (dir. Fabrice Maze, 2009). Documentary. (PART 3/3)

Three-part, three-hour documentary with interviews about Marcel Duchamp, directed by Fabrice Maze in 2009.

Directed by Fabrice Maze, this film is a great reference for those (re)discovering to Marcel Duchamp. With subtlety and infinite sensitivity, Fabrice Maze presents Marcel Duchamp in a new light. He dismisses the image of the intellectual cold, rigid, individualistic to show us a man of great simplicity, sensitivity veiled by modesty, a man who made his life a work of art. Throughout the film, we see the develpment of his genius. He bursts in each chapter of its manifestations. From the place of his childhood, we are moving over not alongside Duchamp without feeling the weight of time.... his film had to exist, and now it is (re) brings to life a man who has always fascinated me to the point to withdraw the power of words .. Duchamp is perhaps beyond the language or, more precisely he asks us to reinvent a new, and another, etc. Also of note, the tremendous effort for archival documents that give us unreleased and interviews Monique Fong, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Arturo Schwarz Jean-Marie Drot (to whom we owe "Chess" a filmed interview with Marcel Duchamp.) recounting his meeting with Duchamp and moments who have remained unforgettable. -- Fabrice Pascaud.

Marcel Duchamp; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art, although not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to put art back in the service of the mind.