Avant-garde experimental cinema, 1922-1954 /

Avant-garde experimental cinema, 1922-1954 / Series 3 :

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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 exper...

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Corporate Authors: California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.), Farallone Films, George Eastman House, Kino International Corporation, Official Films (Firm), Rohauer Collection, Visual Symphony Productions, Inc, Workshop 20 (Firm)
Other Authors: Marc'O, Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 (Performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf), Broughton, James, 1913-1999, Bute, Mary Ellen, Cavalcanti, Alberto, Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, Eastman, George, 1854-1932, Howland, Olin, 1886-1959 (Actor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/act), Huff, Theodore, Kessler, Chester, Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957, Klein, Charles F, Maas, Willard, Munson, Kent, Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968 (Director, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/drt), Nemeth, Ted, 1911-1986, Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 (Performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf), Parker, John J, Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972, Peterson, Sidney, 1905-2000, Rohauer, Raymond, Schmitz, John E, Spring, Robert H, Watson, James S (James Sibley), 1894-1982, Whitney, John, Sr., 1917-1995, Winik, Leslie
Format: Unknown
Language:English
French
Published: New York, NY : Kino International, [2009], ©2009
Edition:Deluxe two-disc ed
Subjects:
Art, Abstract, in motion pictures
Experimental films > France
Experimental films > United States > History
Experimental films > United States
Motion pictures > France
Motion pictures > United States > History
Motion pictures, American > History
Surrealism in motion pictures
Visual literature
DVD-Video discs
Experimental films
Film adaptations
Short films
Silent films
Table of Contents:
  • Disc one: Danse macabre / Visual Symphony Productions, Inc. presents ; conception, Adolph Bolm ; director, Dudley Murphy (1922, U.S.) (6 min.)
  • Rien que les heures = Nothing but time / [Alberto Cavalcanti] (1926, France) (46 min.)
  • The telltale heart / adapted and directed by Charles F. Klein (1928, U.S.) (20 min.)
  • Tomatoes another day / [director, James Sibley Watson] (1930, U.S.) (7 min.)
  • Tarantella / 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 / Workshop 20 ; California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1948, U.S.) (18 min.)
  • The lead shoes / a Workshop 20 production ; California 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 two: Plague summer / adapted from "The Journal of Albion Moonlight" by Kenneth Patchen ; [director, Chester Kessler] (1951, U.S.) (16 min.)
  • La mort du cerf = The death of a stag / réalisé par Dimitri Kirsanoff (1951, France) (13 min.)
  • Image in the snow / a film poem by Willard Maas (1952, U.S.) (26 min.)
  • Celery stalks at midnight / director, John Whitney (1952, U.S.) (3 min.)
  • The voices / Raymond Rohauer presents ; directed by John E. Schmitz (1953, U.S.) (14 min.)
  • Closed vision = close vision / dialogue and screen treatment by Jean Cocteau ; directed by Marc'O (1955, Franco-American) (65 min.). Bonus features: Episodes in the life of a gin bottle / [Bela von Block] (1925, U.S.) (12 min.)
  • Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk / Official films presents ; produced by Leslie Winik (1941, U.K.) (2 min.)
  • Dementia (excerpt) / [John J. Parker] (1953, U.S.) (7 min.)
  • Falling pink / produced and directed by Robert H. Spring (1956-59, U.S.) (10 min.).

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