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8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

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Genre
  
Music

Duration
  

Screenplay
  
6.4/10
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Writer
  
Hans Richter

Running time
  
1h 20m

8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements movie poster
Initial release
  
March 15, 1957 (New York City)

Directors
  
Hans Richter, Jean Cocteau

Music director
  
Douglas Townsend, Robert Abramson, John Gruen

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8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957) is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau released on March 15, 1957 in New York City. It features original music by Robert Abramson, John Gruen and Douglas Townsend.

Described by Richter as "part Freud, part Lewis Carroll", it is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess.

While living in New York, Hans Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy and 8x8: A Chess Sonata in collaboration with Max Ernst, Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

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8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements Wikipedia