Avant-garde. 3 : experimental cinema, 1922-1954.

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Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experi...

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Corporate Authors: Visual Symphony Productions, Workshop 20 (Firm), California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.), Farallone Films, Official Films (Firm), Robair (Firm), George Eastman House. Motion Picture Department, Rohauer Collection, Kino International Corporation, Film Society, International Film Arts Guild, Ted Nemeth Studios, Films Kirsanoff (Firm), Society of Cinema Arts, Cine Art Library, Gryphon Productions
Other Authors: Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 (Performer), Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 (Performer), Howland, Olin, 1886-1959 (Actor), Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968 (Director), Foulkes, Llyn, 1934-, Cavalcanti, Alberto (Director), Klein, Charles F. (Director), Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982 (Director), Bute, Mary Ellen (Director), Nemeth, Ted, 1911-1986 (Director), Munson, Kent (Actor), Huff, Theodore (Director), Peterson, Sidney, 1905-2000 (Director), Broughton, James, 1913-1999 (Director), Kessler, Chester (Director), Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957 (Director), Maas, Willard (Director), Whitney, John, Sr., 1917-1995 (Director), Rohauer, Raymond, Schmitz, John E. (Director), Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, Marc'O (Director), Winik, Leslie (Producer), Block, Bela von, Parker, John J., Spring, Robert H. (Producer, Director), Barber, Maurice, Vickman, Leon, Ridley, Charles A., Moore, Ben, Wood, Bret, Harrison, Jean-Pierre, Carliner, Lewis, Hériat, Philippe, 1898-1971 (Actor), Bernis, Blanche (Actor), Matiesen, Otto, 1893-1932 (Actor), Heick, William, Halprin, Anna, Lathrop, Welland, Lease, Rex, 1903-1966, Gerschefski, Edwin, 1909-1992, Smith, William O. (William Overton), 1926-2020, Thiriet, Maurice, 1906-1972, Weber, Ben, 1916-1979, Calmel, Roger, Mercer, Paul, 1971-, Thompson, William C., A.S.C, Antheil, George, 1900-1959, Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972, Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
Format: DVD
Language:English
French
Published: New York, NY : Kino International, ©2009.
Edition:Deluxe two-disc ed.
Subjects:
Art, Abstract > In motion pictures.
Experimental films > United States.
Motion pictures, American > History.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Experimental films > United States > History.
Experimental films > France.
Surrealism in motion pictures.
Visual literature.
Experimental films.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures, American.
Surrealism.
Motion pictures > United States.
Motion pictures > France.
Videodiscs.
France.
United States.
Silent films.
Short films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Surrealist films.
Short films > France.
Short films > Great Britain.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures > Great Britain.
Video recordings.
Anthology films.
Fiction films.
History.
Experimental > Feature.
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1: Danse macabre / [presented by] Visual Symphony Productions Inc. ; conception, Adolph Bolm ; direction, Dudley Murphy (1922, U.S.) (6 min.)
  • Rien que les heures = Nothing but time / Alberto Cavalcanti (1926, France) (46 min.)
  • The telltale heart / [presented by] the Film Society in conjunction with the International Film Arts Guild ; [presented by] Maurice Barber ; adapted and directed by Charles F. Klein (1928, U.S.) (20 min.)
  • Tomatos another day (It never happened, what may happen, and it didn't happen that night) / James Sibley Watson (1930, U.S.) (7 min.)
  • Tarantella : a swift moving dance / [presented by] Ted Nemeth Studios ; Mary Ellen Bute, [Ted Nemeth] (1940, U.S.) (4 min.)
  • The uncomfortable man / a film by Kent Munson and Theodore Huff (1948, U.S.) (23 min.)
  • The petrified dog / [presented by] Workshop 20, California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1948, U.S.) (18 min.)
  • The lead shoes / a Workshop 20 production ; California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1949, U.S.) (16 min.)
  • Four in the afternoon / a Farallone Films production ; a film suite by James Broughton ; based on poems in his book "Musical Chairs" (1951, U.S.) (14 min.).
  • Disc 2: The plague summer / adapted from "The journal of Albion Moonlight" by Kenneth Patchen ; [dir.] Chester Kessler (1951, U.S.) (16 min.)
  • La mort du cerf = The death of a stag / réalisé par Dimitri Kirsanoff ; production des Films Kirsanoff (1951, France) (12 min.)
  • Image in the snow / a film poem by Willard Maas ; a Gryphon production (1952, U.S.) (26 min.)
  • Celery stalks at midnight / John Whitney (1951, U.S.) (3 min.)
  • The voices / [presented by] Raymond Rohauer ; directed by John E. Schmitz ; original story and photography by John E. Schmitz (1953, U.S.) (14 min.)
  • Closed vision = close vision / dialogue and screen treatment by Jean Cocteau ; directed by Marc'O ; production, the Society of Cinema Arts ; producer, Leon Vickman ; text, scenario, dialogues, Marc'O (1954, Franco-American) (65 min.). Bonus films: Episodes in the life of a gin bottle / a Cine Art Library film ; Bela von Block (ca. 1925, U.S.) (11 min.)
  • Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk (Lambeth Walk-- Nazi style) / [presented by] Official Films ; produced by Leslie Winik ; [dir.] Charles A. Ridley (1941, U.K.) (2 min.)
  • Dementia (excerpt) / John J. Parker (1953, U.S.) (7 min.)
  • Falling pink / [presented by] Robair ; produced and directed by Robert H. Spring (1956-59, U.S.) (9 min.).

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