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DVD

Avant-garde : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s

Author

Man Ray

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43611 A9461 (CEN)

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Edition

Deluxe two-disc ed. ; Full screen version.

Languages

Silent or with music; credits and intertitles in Dutch, English, French, and German ; optional English subtitles (on selected films).

Publication Information

New York : Kino on Video, c2005.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (407 min.) : sd. & si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime programmer at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles.

Notes

Special features: film notes by film critic/historian Elliott Stein.

Contents

  • DVD 1: Le retour à la raison = The return to reason / (1923, France) (3 min.)
  • Emak-Bakia = Leave me alone (1926, France) (16 min.)
  • L'Étoile de mer = The starfish / (1928, France) (15 min.)
  • Les mystères du château du Dé = The mysteries of the chateau of dice / (1929, France) (20 min.)
  • The life and death of 9413 : a Hollywood extra / (1928, U.S.) (13 min.)
  • Ménilmontant / (1926, France) (37 min.)
  • Brumes d'automne = Autumn mists / (1928, France) (12 min.)
  • Lot in Sodom / (1933, U.S.) (27 min.)
  • Rhythmus 21 = Film is rhythm / (1921, Germany) (3 min.)
  • Vormittagsspuk = Ghosts before breakfast / (1928, Germany) (9 min.)
  • Anémic cinéma / (1926, France) (6 min.)
  • Ballet mécanique / (1924, France) (11 min.)
  • Symphonie diagonale = Diagonal symphony / (1924, France) (7 min.)
  • Le vampire / (1939-45, France) (9 min.)
  • The hearts of age / (1934, U.S.) (8 min.).
  • DVD 2: Polizeibericht : Überfall = Police Report! : Assault / (1928, Germany) (22 min.)
  • La glace à trois faces = The three-sided mirror / (1927, France) (33 min.)
  • Le tempestaire = The tempest / Romance sentimentale = Sentimental romance / Autumn fire / Manhatta / (1921, U.S.) (10 min.)
  • La coquille et le clergyman = The seashell and the clergyman / (1928, France) (31 min.)
  • Regen = Rain / (1929, Netherlands) (14 min.)
  • H²O/ (1929, U.S.) (12 min.)
  • Even - as you and I / (1937, U.S.) (12 min.).

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