| Title: | Avant-garde [videorecording] : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. |
| Edition: | Deluxe two-disc ed. |
| Description: | 2 videodiscs (387 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Published: | New York, N.Y. : Kino on Video, c2005. |
| Publisher No.: | K402 Kino on Video |
| System: | DVD ; full screen format (1.33:1) ; scene access. |
| Language Note: | Films are primarily silent with music and English, French, German, and Dutch credits and intertitles with optional English subtitles. |
| Summary: | Twenty-five short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. |
| Contents: | Disc 1. Le retour à la raison / Man Ray (1923, France, 2 min.) -- Emak-Bakia / Man Ray (1926, France, 16 min.) -- L'étoile de mer / May Ray (1928, France, 15 min.) -- Les mystères du château du Dé / Man Ray (1929, France, 20 min.) -- The life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra / Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey (1928, United States, 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, United States, 27 min.) -- Rhythmus 21 / 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 / Viking Eggeling (1924, France, 7 min.) -- Le vampire / Jean Painlevé (1939, France, 8 min.) -- The hearts of age / Orson Welles and William Vance (1934, United States, 8 min.). Disc 2. Überfall / Ernö Metzner (1928, Germany, 22 min.) -- La glace à trois faces / Jean Epstein (1927, France, 33 min.) -- Le tempestaire / Jean Epstein (1947, France, 22 min.) -- Romance sentimentale / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov (1930, France, 20 min.) -- Autumn fire / Herman G. Weinberg (1931, United States, 15 min.) -- Manhatta / Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler (1921, United States, 10 min.) -- La coquille et le clergyman / Germaine Dulac (1926, France, 31 min.) -- Regen = Rain / Joris Ivens (1929, Netherlands, 14 min.) -- H2O / Ralph Steiner (1929, United States, 12 min.) -- Even--as you and I / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins (1937, United States, 12 min.). |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Notes: | Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States between 1921 and 1939. "Films from the Raymond Rohauer collection"--Cover. The film, Brumes d'automne is not listed on the container. 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. |
| Subject(s): | Surrealism in motion pictures. Surrealism. Motion pictures France. Motion pictures Netherlands. Motion pictures Germany. Motion pictures United States. |
| Short films. Experimental films. Silent films. | |
| Other Author(s): | Man Ray, 1890-1976. Vorkapich, Slavko. Florey, Robert, 1900- Kirsanov, Dimitri, 1899-1957. Weinberg, Herman G. Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 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. Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903- Strand, Paul, 1890-1976. Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965. Dulac, Germaine, 1882-1942. Ivens, Joris, 1898- Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986. Barlow, Roger. Hay, Harry. Robbins, LeRoy, 1904-1987. Rohauer, Raymond. |
| Rohauer Collection. Kino International Corporation. | |
| Other Titles: | Retour à la raison. Emak-Bakia. Étoile de mer. Mystères du château du Dé. Life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra. Ménilmontant. Brumes d'automne. Lot in Sodom. Rhythmus 21. Vormittagsspuk. Anémic cinéma. Ballet mechanique. Symphonie diagonale. Vampire. Hearts of age. Überfall. Glace à trois faces. Tempestaire. Romance sentimentale. Manhatta. Autumn fire. Coquille et le clergyman. Regen. H2O. Even--as you and I. |
| Avant garde Experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s |
| Location(s): | copy 1 Bailey/Howe Media Resources (videodisc) (Ground Floor) |
| Call Number: | DVD 3807 |
| Library Has: | discs 1-2 |
| Notes: | CAMPUS USE INSTRUCTIONAL |
| Status: | Not Charged Check Shelf |