DVD
Avant-garde. 3 : experimental cinema, 1922-1954
Edition
Deluxe two-disc ed. ; Full screen version.
Languages
Silent or with music; credits, intertitles, and some dialogue in English and French; optional English subtitles (on selected films).
Publication Information
New York : Kino on Video, c2009.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (289 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Series
Summary
Originally produced as individual silent or sound motion pictures in the United States and France, these fifteen short films epitomize the development of experimental film from the 1920's through the 1950's. The films are drawn from the collections assembled by Raymond Rohauer and the George Eastman House.
Contents
- Danse macabre / Rien que les heures = Nothing but time / The telltale heart / Tarantella / Tomatoes another day / The uncomfortable man / The petrified dog / The lead shoes / Four in the afternoon
- Plague summer / La mort du cerf = The death of a stag / Image in the snow / Celery stalks at midnight / The voices / Closed vision / Tomatoes another day (outtakes) / Episodes in the life of a gin bottle / Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk / Dementia (excerpt) / Falling pink