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American film treasures IV : avant garde, 1947-1986.

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43611 A51241 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[San Francisco, Calif.] : National Film Preservation Foundation ; [Chatsworth, CA] : Distributed by Image Entertainment, c2009.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (312 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (70 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Presents 26 films by 27 directors representing a variety of film types and styles, from abstract animation to documentary.

Notes

Accompanying book: foreword by Martin Scorsese, includes brief essays about each film.

Originally produced as individual short films from 1947-1986.

Special features: 5 hours on 2 discs ; 26 films never before seen on quality video ; newly recorded music by John Zorn ; illustrated book with film notes and foreword by Martin Scorsese ; portraits of the filmmakers.

Contents

  • Program 1. Film no. 3 : interwoven / Harry Smith (1947-49, 3 min.)
  • Notes on the circus / Jonas Mekas (1966, 12 min.)
  • Here I am / Bruce Baille (1962, 10 min.)
  • Fake fruit factory / Chick Strand (1986, 22 min.)
  • Odds & ends / Jane Conger Belson Shimane (1959, 4 min.)
  • Eyewash / Robert Breer (1959, 3 min.)
  • Peyote queen / Storm De Hirsch (1965, 9 min.)
  • 7362 / Pat O'Neill (1967, 10 min.)
  • Aleph / Wallace Berman (1956-66?, 8 min.)
  • Note to Pati / Saul Levine (1969, 7 min.)
  • By night with torch and spear / Joseph Cornell (1940s?, 8 min.)
  • The riddle of lumen / Stan Brakhage (1972, 13 min.)
  • The end / Christopher Maclaine (1953, 34 min.).
  • Program 2. Bridges-go-round / Shirley Clarke (1958, 4 min.)
  • Go! Go! Go! / Marie Menken (1962-64, 11 min.
  • Little stabs at happiness / Ken Jacobs (1959-63, 15 min.)
  • Chumlum / Ron Rice (1964, 23 min.)
  • Mario banana (no. 1) / Andy Warhol (1964, 4 min.)
  • I, an actress / George Kuchar (1977, 9 min.)
  • The off-handed jape ... & how to pull it off / Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley (1967, 8 min.)
  • New improved institutional quality : in the environment of liquids and nasals a parasitic vowel sometimes develops / Owen Land (1976, 10 min.)
  • Hamfat Asar / Lawrence Jordan (1965, 13 min.)
  • Necrology / Standish Lawder (1969-70, 11 min.)
  • Fog line / Larry Gottheim (1970, 11 min.)
  • (nostalgia) / Hollis Frampton (1971, 36 min.)
  • Bad burns / Paul Sharits (1982, 6 min.).

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