Avant-garde : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s / Kino International ; producer/designer, Bret Wood.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Dutch
  • Russian
Εdition
Deluxe two-disc edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Kino International, [2005]
  • ©2005
Description
2 videodiscs (407 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

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    • 4 3/4 in.
    Summary note
    Twenty-four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's.
    Notes
    • Title from container.
    • With musical accompaniment.
    • Originally produced individually as silent motion pictures from 1921-1947.
    • Films from France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States.
    • "Films from the Raymond Rohauer collection"--Cover.
    • Special features include film notes by film critic/historian Elliot Stein, optional English subtitles (on selected films), dual-layer RSDL edition for optimal image quality.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Photography by Man Ray, Gregg [Toland], Jean de Miéville, Eduard von Borsody, [Marcel] Eywinger, [Albert] Militon, [René] Schneider, E[duard] Tisse ; music by Donald Sosin, Paul Mercer, (dp)³, Paul Devred, Louis Siegel, Sue Harshe, Larry Marotta, Jean Schwartz, Yves Baudrier, Alexis Archangelsky, Lou Lichtveld, Bruce Bennett ; sung by Louise Mazzoli.
    Target audience
    MPAA rating: Not rated.
    System details
    DVD; dual-layer RSDL, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Alice (Kiki) Prin, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos, Georges Auric, Le Comte de Beaumont, Le Vicomte de Noailles, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Man Ray, J.-A. Boiffard, [Jules] Raucort, [George] Voya, Nadia Sibirskaia, Friederich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorothea Haus, Lewis Whitbeck, Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Alfred Loretto, Han Ruys, Sybille Schmitz, Rudolf Hilberg, Heinrich Falconi, Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day, Raymond Guerin, Paul Garat, René Ferté, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Mara Griy, Erna Bergman, Willy Hildebrand.
    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.
    Other title(s)
    Experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s
    Publisher no.
    K402
    OCLC
    61231446
    Universal Product Code
    • 738329040222
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