Avant Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Experimental Film
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Duration
341 min.
Subject
Surrealism in motion pictures. Surrealism. Motion pictures -- France. Motion pictures -- United States.
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Abstract
Originally produced as individual silent or sound motion pictures in the United States, Germany, and France, these seventeen short films epitomize the development of experimental film from the 1920's through the 1950'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. Rohauer helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema, and these films from his personal archive are some of the most influential and eclectic short films made during the 20th Century.
Description
Disc 1:
Geography of the body / produced by Willard Maas (1943, U.S.) (7 min.) --
Mechanics of love : a film poem / by Willard Maas and Ben Moore (1955) (5 min.) --
Visual variations on Noguchi / by Marie Menken ; a Gryphon Production (1945, U.S.) (4 min.) --
House of cards / by Joseph Vogel (1947, U.S.) (16 min.) --
Potted psalm / by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton (1946, U.S.) (18 min.) --
Cage / produced by Workshop 20, California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1947, U.S.) (28 min.) --
Christmas, U.S.A. / by Gregory J. Markopoulos (1949, U.S.) (13 min.) --
Adventures of Jimmy / a Farallone Films production ; by James Broughton (1950, U.S.) (10 min.) --
Interim / scenario & direction, J.S. Brakhage (1952, U.S.) (24 min.) --
Unglassed windows cast a terrible reflection / produced by Paul R. Ihrig ; written, photographed and directed by J. Stan Brakhage (1953, U.S.) (29 min.) --
Way to shadow garden / by Brakhage (1954, U.S.) (11 min.) --
Extraordinary child / produced, directed and photographed by Stan Brakhage (1954, U.S.) (13 min.).
Disc 2:
Rebus-film no. 1 / idea, Paul Leni ; (1925, Germany) (15 min.) --
Fall of the House of Usher : a film version of Poe's story / by Melville Webber and J.S. Watson Jr. (1928, U.S.) (13 min.) --
Pacific 231 / Tadié Cinema ; an 'essay' by Jean Mitry ; based on the symphonic movement by Arthur Honegger (1949, France) (10 min.) --
Arrière saison = Late autumn / Les Films Kirsanoff présentent ; écrit et réalisé par Dimitri Kirsanoff (1950, France) (15 min.) --
Traité de bave et d'éternité = Venom and eternity / Society of Cinema Arts and Raymond Rohauer present ; directed by Jean-Isidore Isou ; reconstructed by Bret Wood (1951, France) (111 min.).
2 videodiscs (341 min.) : sound & silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Access DVD Booklet at:https://www.scribd.com/doc/284229753/Avant-Garde-2-Experimental-Cinema-1928-1954
Geography of the body / produced by Willard Maas (1943, U.S.) (7 min.) --
Mechanics of love : a film poem / by Willard Maas and Ben Moore (1955) (5 min.) --
Visual variations on Noguchi / by Marie Menken ; a Gryphon Production (1945, U.S.) (4 min.) --
House of cards / by Joseph Vogel (1947, U.S.) (16 min.) --
Potted psalm / by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton (1946, U.S.) (18 min.) --
Cage / produced by Workshop 20, California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1947, U.S.) (28 min.) --
Christmas, U.S.A. / by Gregory J. Markopoulos (1949, U.S.) (13 min.) --
Adventures of Jimmy / a Farallone Films production ; by James Broughton (1950, U.S.) (10 min.) --
Interim / scenario & direction, J.S. Brakhage (1952, U.S.) (24 min.) --
Unglassed windows cast a terrible reflection / produced by Paul R. Ihrig ; written, photographed and directed by J. Stan Brakhage (1953, U.S.) (29 min.) --
Way to shadow garden / by Brakhage (1954, U.S.) (11 min.) --
Extraordinary child / produced, directed and photographed by Stan Brakhage (1954, U.S.) (13 min.).
Disc 2:
Rebus-film no. 1 / idea, Paul Leni ; (1925, Germany) (15 min.) --
Fall of the House of Usher : a film version of Poe's story / by Melville Webber and J.S. Watson Jr. (1928, U.S.) (13 min.) --
Pacific 231 / Tadié Cinema ; an 'essay' by Jean Mitry ; based on the symphonic movement by Arthur Honegger (1949, France) (10 min.) --
Arrière saison = Late autumn / Les Films Kirsanoff présentent ; écrit et réalisé par Dimitri Kirsanoff (1950, France) (15 min.) --
Traité de bave et d'éternité = Venom and eternity / Society of Cinema Arts and Raymond Rohauer present ; directed by Jean-Isidore Isou ; reconstructed by Bret Wood (1951, France) (111 min.).
2 videodiscs (341 min.) : sound & silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Access DVD Booklet at:https://www.scribd.com/doc/284229753/Avant-Garde-2-Experimental-Cinema-1928-1954
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