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Concerto mécanique pour la folie, ou la folle mécamorphose—which can be loosely translated as The Mad Mechanical Concert, or the Madwoman’s Mechanical Metamorphosis—was commissioned by the French pharmaceutical company Sandoz. In 1962 Erró began preparing the props, some of which are on view here. The film conjures up an apocalyptic, robotic future where human beings are taken apart and reassembled with machine parts. Concerto mécanique builds on precedents like the collaborative Surrealist films of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (such as Un Chien Andalou, 1929) as well as the futuristic dystopia of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). In Erró’s future, however, even the act of reproduction is mechanized.
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