Museum's films: the Pompidou Collection

At the request of Xcèntric, this season the heads of film collections of the principal international art museums will present a selection, at once personal and representative, of their constituent works. We start this series with a programme from the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, put together and presented by Philippe-Alain Michaud, featuring seminal creators such as Duchamp, Kubelka and Conner.

Danse serpentine, Luca Comerio, 1897, 30 s [35 mm transferred to video]; [Eclosion rapide], anonymous, silent, c. 1920, 16 mm, 5 min; Les vers marins (anonymous), 1912, 35 mm, 7 min; Anémic cinéma, Marcel Duchamp, 1925, 35 mm, 7 min; Adebar, Peter Kubelka, 1956, 35 mm, 2 min; Breakaway, Bruce Conner, 1966, 16 mm, 5 min; Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Ronald Nameth, 1967, 16 mm, 14 min; Watermotor, Babette Mangolte, 1978, 16 mm, 8 min; Free Radicals, Len Lye, 1979, 16 mm, 4 min; Jewel, Hassan Khan, 2010, 6 min 30 s [35 mm transferred to video].