Avant-Garde Volume 3 Experimental Cinema from 1922-1954 (Avant-Garde 3)

SYNOPSIS

DELUXE TWO-DISC EDITION
AVANT-GARDE 3 EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA 1922-1954

CAVALCANTI MAAS PETERSON BROUGHTON BUTE KESSLER WHITNEY KIRSANOFF MURPHY MARC'O WATSON HUFF

From THE Collection of THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE AND FROM THE RAYMOND ROHAUER COLLECTION

From the little theaters of the 1920s to the ad hoc film societies of the '50s, avant-garde cinema knew no established form and held no predictable position. The boundaries of its history are still hotly debated, but its rough sensibilities informed and permeated the city symphonies of Alberto Cavalcanti, the visual music of Mary Ellen Bute and John Whitney, the classroom films of Sidney Peterson, the confessional film poems of Willard Maas and John E. Schmitz, the Lettrist cinema of Marc'O, and even marginal exploitation films and home movies. Drawn from the rich collections of Raymond Rohauer and the George Eastman House, Kino's third volume of experimental films continues to illuminate the degree to which cinema's evolution has been influenced by those filmmakers who occupy its periphery.

DISC ONE

• DANSE MACABRE
  US 1922 Color Tinted 6 Min.
  Dir: Dudley Murphy
• RIEN QUE LES HEURES
  (Nothing But Time)
  US 1926 B&W 46 Min.
  Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti
  Music by Larry Marotta
• THE TELL-TALE HEART
  US 1928 B&W 20 Min.
  Dir: Charles F. Klein
  Music by Sue Harshe
• TARANTELLA
  US 1940 Color 4 Min.
  Dir: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
• TOMATOS ANOTHER DAY
  US 1930 B&W 7 Min.
  Dir: James Sibley Watson
• THE UNCOMFORTABLE MAN
  US 1948 B&W 23 Min.
  Intentionally silent
  Dir: Kent Munson, Theodore Huff
  The above films are from the collection of the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department
• THE PETRIFIED DOG
  US 1948 B&W 18 Min.
  Dir: Sidney Peterson
• THE LEAD SHOES (National Film Registry>
  US 1949 B&W 16 Min.
  Dir: Sidney Peterson
• FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON
  US 1951 B&W 14 Min.
  Dir: James Broughton

DISC TWO

• PLAGUE SUMMER
  US 1951 B&W 15 Min.
  Dir: Chester Kessler
• LA MORT DU CERF
  (The Death of a Stag)
  France 1951 B&W 12 Min.
  Dir: Dimitri Kirsanoff
• IMAGE IN THE SNOW
  US 1952 B&W 26 Min.
  Dir: Willard Maas
• CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT
  France 1952 Color 3 Min.
  Dir: John Whitney
• THE VOICES
  US 1953 B&W 14 Min.
  Dir: John E. Schmitz
• CLOSED VISION
  US 1954 B&W 65 Min.
  Dir: Marc'O

DVD Features

BONUS FILMS

• TOMATOS ANOTHER DAY (outtakes)
  US 1930 B&W 5 Min. Dir: James Sibley Watson
• EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A GIN BOTTLE
  US 1925 B&W 11 Min. Dir: Bela von Block
  Music by Paul Mercer, Bruce Bennett and Davis Petterson
• SCHICHLEGRUBER DOING THE LAMBETH WALK
  UK 1941 B&W 2 Min. Dir: Charles A. Ridley
• DEMENTIA (excerpt)
  US 1955 B&W 5 Min. Dir: John Parker
• FALLING PINK
  US circa late 1950s Color 9 Min. Dir: Robert H. Spring
  Music by Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett