- Avant-garde (dvd collection)
"Avant-Garde" is a DVD-series with experimental films released by
Kino International .Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
"Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s" is a 2-disc, 6-hour DVD collection, released in August 2005 by
Kino International which includes the following titles:*"
Le Retour à la Raison " ("Return to Reason ") (France, 1923) directed byMan Ray , 2 minutes
*"Emak-Bakia " ("Leave Me Alone") (France, 1926) directed by Man Ray, 16 minutes
*"L'Étoile de Mer " ("The Starfish") (France, 1928) directed by Man Ray, 15 minutes
*"Les Mystéres du Château du Dé " ("The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice ") (France, 1929) directed by Man Ray, 20 minutes
*"Ménilmontant " (France, 1926) directed byDimitri Kirsanoff , 37 minutes
*"Brumes d'Automne" ("Autumn Mists") (France, 1928) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 12 minutes
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*"Lot in Sodom " (US, 1933) directed byJames Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 27 minutes
*"Rhythmus 21" (Germany, 1921) directed by Hans Richter, 3 minutes
*"Vormittagsspuk" ("Ghosts Before Breakfast") (Germany, 1928) directed by Hans Richter, 9 minutes
*"Anemic Cinema " (France, 1926) directed byMarcel Duchamp , 6 minutes
*"Ballet mecanique " (France, 1924) directed byFernand Leger , 11 minutes
*"Symphonie Diagonale" (Germany, 1924) directed byViking Eggeling , 7 minutes
*"Le Vampire" (France, 1939-45) directed byJean Painlevé , 9 minutes
*"Hearts of Age " (US, 1934) directed byOrson Welles and William Vance, 8 minutes
*"Uberfall" (Germany, 1928) directed byErno Metzner , 22 minutes
*"La Glace a trois faces" (France, 1927) directed byJean Epstein , 33 minutes
*"Le Tempestaire" ("The Tempest") (France, 1947) directed by Jean Epstein, 22 minutes
*"Romance Sentimentale " (France, 1930) directed bySergei Eisenstein andGrigori V. Alexandrov , 16 min.
*"Autumn Fire " (US, 1931) directed byHerman G. Weinberg , 15 minutes
*"Manhatta " (US, 1921) directed byPaul Strand andCharles Sheeler , 25 minutes
*"La Coquille et le Clergyman " ("The Seashell and the Clergyman ") (France, 1928) directed byGermaine Dulac , 31 minutes
*"Regen" ("Rain") (Netherlands, 1929) directed byJoris Ivens , 14 minutes
*"H2O" (US, 1929) directed byRalph Steiner , 12 minutes
*"Even As You And I" (US, 1937) directed by Roger Barlow,Harry Hay , and LeRoy Robbins, 12 minutesAvant Garde 2 - Experimental Cinema - 1928-1954
On
24 July 2007 , Kino International released a second DVD collection of experimental films "Avant-Garde Vol. 2: Experimental Films 1930-1954". This release includes:*"
Geography of the Body " (US, 1943) directed byWillard Maas , 7 minutes
*"The Mechanics of Love " (US, 1955) directed byWillard Maas andBen Moore , 5 minutes
*"Visual Variations on Noguchi " (US, 1945) directed byMarie Menken , 4 minutes
*"The Potted Psalm " (US, 1946) directed bySidney Peterson andJames Broughton , 18 minutes
*"The Cage " (US, 1947) directed bySidney Peterson , 28 minutes
*"House of Cards " (US, 1947) directed byJoseph Vogel , 16 minutes
*"Christmas, U.S.A. " (US, 1949) directed byGregory Markopoulos , 13 minutes
*"Adventures of Jimmy " (US, 1950) directed byJames Broughton , 10 minutes
*"Interim " (US, 1952) directed byStan Brakhage , 24 minutes
*"Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection " (US, 1953) directed byStan Brakhage , 29 minutes
*"The Way To Shadow Garden " (US, 1954) directed byStan Brakhage , 11 minutes
*"The Extraordinary Child " (US, 1954) directed byStan Brakhage , 13 minutes
*"Rebus-Film Nr. 1 " (Germany, 1925) directed byPaul Leni , 15 minutes
*"The Fall of the House of Usher" (US, 1928) directed by James Watson andMelville Webber , 12 minutes
*"Pacific 231 " (France, 1949) directed byJean Mitry , 10 minutes
*"Arrière Saison " (France, 1950) directed byDimitri Kirsanoff , 15 minutes
*"Traité de Bave et d'Èternité " ("Venom and Eternity ") (France, 1951) directed by Jean Isidore Isou, 111 minutesee also
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