DVD
What is cinema?
Edition
DVD edition.
Performers
Featuring: Chantal Akerman, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Costa-Gavras, Rob Epstein, James Franco, Alfred Hitchcock, J. Hoberman, Ken Jacobs, Abbas Kiarostami, Akira Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Jonas Mekas, Michael Moore, Yvonne Rainer, Kelly Reichardt, Bill Viola.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Cohen Media Group ; Port Washington, NY : Entertainment One Film, 2014.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (78 minutes) : sound, color and black-and-white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : portraits (some color) ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Chuck Workman is best known for creating unforgettable Oscar montage sequences and for his award-winning documentaries. In What Is Cinema? he demonstrates his command of cinematic language, creating a visual essay out of clips from films that pushed the boundaries of the art form and gave us ideas of what the future might hold.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a documentary in 2014.
Special features: 10 experimental shorts by directors Man Ray, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, Lewis Klahr and more ; trailer.
Contents
- Bonus short films: Ballet Mécanique / (1924) (11 min.)
- Return to reason / (1923) (2 min.)
- Leave me alone / (1926) (16 min.)
- The sea star = L'étoile de mer / (1928) (16 min.)
- The mysteries of the chateau of dice = Les mystères de château du dé / (1929) (20 min.)
- The life and death of 9413 : a Hollywood extra / (1927) (14 min.)
- Peyote queen / (1965) (9 min.)
- Notes on the circus / (1968) (13 min.)
- Flo rounds a corner / (1999) (6 min.)
- Turn it back / (2013) (3 min.)
- The emblazoned apparitions / (2013) (6 min.).