Le Ballet Mécanique (1924), a collaboration between American composer George Antheil, French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Joseph Fernand Henri Léger, filmmaker Dudley Murphy, and American modernist artist Man Ray who contributed cinematographic input.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is currently hosting an interdisciplinary exhibition through January 5th, 2014, Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis. Curated by Anna Vallye, the exhibit is designed to "shed new light on the vitally experimental decade of the 1920s in Paris
when the great French modernist Fernand Léger (1881-1955) played a
leading role in redefining the practice of painting by bringing it into
active engagement with the urban environment and modern mass media. This
will be the first exhibition to take as its inspiration and focus
Léger’s monumental painting The City (1919), a cornerstone of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection and a landmark in the history
of modern art, placing it in dialogue with the urban art and culture of
modernity."
PMA hosted a screening and discussion of Le Ballet Mécanique, what wiki describes as one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking. Composer Antheil's "most enduring work" was intended as a soundtrack, but film and music were reportedly not brought together until the 1990s.
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