Storyline:In
the 1923 silent short of the same title, Man Ray filmed barely
discernible scenes of Paris at night along with his own enigmatic
photograms and conglomerations of spiraling or gyrating objects. The
resulting sequence of near-total abstractions seems devoid of sense or
purpose. The "return to reason" in the film comes finally in the form of
a woman's torso–modeled by cabaret personality Kiki de
Montparnasse–turning to and fro beside a rain-covered windowpane. Man
Ray reproduced the seductive finale, as well as other moments from the
film, as photographs, singly and in strips [artic.edu]
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