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

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

Subtitle on disc label and container: Films from the Raymond Rohauer collection

Deluxe two-disc ed.

New York, NY : Kino International : Distributed by Kino on Video, ©2005.

2 videodiscs (407 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

metal plastic

Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930'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.

Chiefly silent, with music (original or added); some films with French or English dialog or Russian singing; credits and intertitles in Dutch, English, French, and German ; optional subtitles in English (on selected films).

Title from DVD menu.

All selections originally produced 1921-1947.

Special features: Film notes by Elliott Stein [text feature].

DVD 1:
Le retour à la raison =
The return to reason /
Man Ray
(1923, France) (3 min.)
Emak-Bakia =
Leave me alone
Man Ray
(1926, France) (16 min.)
L'Étoile de mer =
The starfish /
Man Ray
(1928, France) (15 min.)
Les mystères du château du Dé =
The mysteries of the chateau of dice /
Man Ray
(1929, France) (20 min.)
The Life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra /
Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich
(1928, U.S.) (13 min.)
Ménilmontant /
Dimitri Kirsanoff
(1926, France) (37 min.)
Brumes d'automne =
Autumn mists /
Dimitri Kirsanoff
(1928, France) (12 min.)
Lot in Sodom /
James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber
(1933, U.S.) (27 min.)
Rhythmus 21 =
Film is rhythm /
Hans Richter
(1921, Germany) (3 min.)
Vormittagsspuk =
Ghosts before breakfast /
Hans Richter
(1928, Germany) (9 min.)
Anémic cinéma /
Marcel Duchamp
(1926, France) (6 min.)
Ballet mécanique /
Fernand Léger
(1924, France) (11 min.)
Symphonie diagonale =
Diagonal symphony /
Viking Eggeling
(1924, France) (7 min.)
Le vampire /
Jean Painlevé
(1939-45, France) (9 min.)
The hearts of age /
Orson Welles and William Vance
(1934, U.S.) (8 min.)
DVD 2:
Polizeibericht : Überfall =
Police Report! : Assault /
Ernö Metzner
(1928, Germany) (22 min.)
La glace à trois faces =
The three-sided mirror /
Jean Epstein ; d'apres la nouvelle de Paul Morand
(1927, France) (41 min.)
Le tempestaire =
The tempest /
Jean Epstein
(1947, France) (41 min.)
Romance sentimentale =
Sentimental romance /
Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov
(1930, France) (21 min.)
Autumn fire /
Herman G. Weinberg
(1931, U.S.) (15 min.)
Manhatta /
Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler
(1921, U.S.) (10 min.)
La coquille et le clergyman =
The seashell and the clergyman /
Germaine Dulac
(1928, France) (31 min.)
Regen = Rain /
Joris Ivens and M.H.K. Franken
(1929, Netherlands) (14 min.)
H²O/
Ralph Steiner
(1929, U.S.) (12 min.)
Even
as you and I /
Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and Le Roy Robbins
(1937, U.S.) (12 min.).

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.

Alice (Kiki) Prin, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos, 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.

DVD, NTSC.

Purchased by the Folger for Jean Epstein's Le tempestaire (1947, France) in DVD 2.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

DVD 183

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