While Man Ray is mostly remembered for his significant contribution to Dada art (in several well-known Dada films), the majority of his work listed on IMDb in fact consists of a series of short home movies he made of various things, none seemingly made with the intent of ever being released. It seems that after the artist's years as a filmmaker, the home movies he made 1923-1938 somehow resurfaced and were compiled in a nearly feature-length collection aptly titled "Home Movies". While nothing in particular is unique about them, they do provide interest to fans of old film - especially those interested in the artist himself.
"L'atelier du Val de Grâce" is said to have been made in 1935, but this date seems to be utterly impossible - the thing is fully in color and "The Wizard of Oz", the first commercially distributed movie in color, was made in 1939. Obviously there is no way a filmmaker like Man Ray would have had access to color film yet - perhaps this was made in 1945 instead. In any case, an insignificant one in the collection, one which mostly just features shots of Man Ray's apartment studio, including various paintings and drawings of his up for display. Some are quite interesting, and with the benefit of color they are rather nice to see, but it doesn't have the added bonus of seeing Man Ray and his friends interacting which made some of the other home movies more worthwhile. Just a lot of neat artwork, and that's about all, an interesting one mainly for just Man Ray completists.
"L'atelier du Val de Grâce" is said to have been made in 1935, but this date seems to be utterly impossible - the thing is fully in color and "The Wizard of Oz", the first commercially distributed movie in color, was made in 1939. Obviously there is no way a filmmaker like Man Ray would have had access to color film yet - perhaps this was made in 1945 instead. In any case, an insignificant one in the collection, one which mostly just features shots of Man Ray's apartment studio, including various paintings and drawings of his up for display. Some are quite interesting, and with the benefit of color they are rather nice to see, but it doesn't have the added bonus of seeing Man Ray and his friends interacting which made some of the other home movies more worthwhile. Just a lot of neat artwork, and that's about all, an interesting one mainly for just Man Ray completists.
