Title: Avant garde experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s.
Authors: Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984; Man Ray, 1890-1976; Vorkapich, Slavko; Florey, Robert, 1900-1979; Kirsanoff, Dimitri.; Weinberg, Herman G.; Watson, James S. 1894-; Webber, Melville; Richter, Hans, 1888-1976; Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968; Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955; Eggeling, Viking, 1880-1925; Painlevé, Jean; Welles, Orson, 1915-1985; Vance, William; Metzner, Ernö, 1892-1954; Epstein, Jean, 1897-1953; Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948; Strand, Paul, 1890-1976; Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965; Dulac, Germaine, 1882-1942; Ivens, Joris, 1898-1989; Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986; Barlow, Roger; Hay, Harry; Robbins, LeRoy, 1904-1987; Rohauer, Raymond; Rohauer Collection; Kino International Corporation
Publisher: Kino on Video,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Surrealism in motion pictures; Dadaism in motion pictures; Cubism in motion pictures; Experimental films History and criticism
Abstract: Twenty-four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's.
Contents: disc 1. Le retour à la raison (1923, France) / Man Ray -- Emak-Bakia (1926, France) / Man Ray -- L'Étoile de mer (1928, France) / May Ray -- Les mystères du château du Dé (1929, France) / Man Ray -- The life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra (1928, United States) / Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey -- Ménilmontant (1926, France) / Dimitri Kirsanoff -- Brumes d'automne = Autumn fire (1931, United States) / Herman G. Weinberg -- Lot in Sodom (1933, United States) / James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber -- Rhythmus 21 (1921, Germany) / Hans Richter -- Vormittagsspuk = ghosts before breakfast (1928, Germany) / Hans Richter -- Anémic cinéma (1926, France) / Marcel Duchamp -- Ballet mécanique (1924, France) / Fernand Léger -- Symphonie diagonale (1924, France) / Viking Eggeling -- Le vampire (1939, France) / Jean Painlevé -- The hearts of age (1934, United States) / Orson Welles and William Vance -- disc 2. Überfall (1928, Germany) / Ernö Metzner -- La glace à trois faces (1927, France) / Jean Epstein -- Le tempestaire (1947, France) / Jean Epstein -- Romance sentimentale (1930, France) / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov -- Autumn fire (1931, United States) / Herman G. Weinberg -- Manhatta (1921, United States) / Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler -- La coquille et le clergyman (1926, France) / Germaine Dulac -- Regen = Rain (1929, Netherlands) / Joris Ivens -- H2O (1929, United States) / Ralph Steiner -- Even -- as you and I (1937, United States) / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins.