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Silent Avant-Garde
SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements, focusing on the creative possibilities of image, sound, and silence used in American-made experimental films of the 20th century.
SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements. Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films, The Enchanted City (1922), Return to Reason (1923), Ballet Mechanique (1924, 1931), The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1925), Eisenstein Mexican Footage (1930), Escape, Synchromy No. 4 (1938), The Eclipse (1936-1949), Look Park (1973), and Tenga fe (2022). Each film features a brilliant accompaniment of original silent film music specially prepared, composed, improvised and/ or performed by a master of experimental new music. SILENT AVANT-GARDE desires to focus on the creative possibilities of image, sound, and silence used in American-made experimental films of the 20th century.