Avant-Garde:
Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s

This great new 2-disc DVD release from Kino has really performed a singlular service.  Before this was released, your chance of seeing any of the films it contains outside of a university film history class or a rare special screening at a major metropolitan musem were slim to none.  But now anyone anywhere can feast their eyes on these gems from the Raymond Rohauer collection in Los Angeles.  See what artists working towards self-expression rather than a paycheck did with film while it was still a young and fresh medium.  

Contents:

Disc 1

• Le Retour à la raison
  (Man Ray, France, 1923, 2 min.)
• Emak-Bakia
  (Man Ray, France, 1926, 16 min.)
• L'Étoile de mer
  (Man Ray, France, 1928, 15.5 min.)
• Les Mystères du château du Dé
  (Man Ray, France, 1929, 20 min.)
• The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
  (Slavko Vorkapich, Robert Florey, U.S., 1928, 13 min.)
• Ménilmontant
  (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1926, 37 min.)
• Brumes d'automne
  (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1928, 12 min.)
• Lot in Sodom
  (James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber, U.S., 1933, 27 min.)
• Rhythmus 21
  (Hans Richter, Germany, 1921, 3 min.)
• Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast)
  (Hans Richter, Germany, 1928, 9 min.)
• Anémic cinéma
  (Marcel Duchamp, France, 1926, 6.5 min.)
• Ballet mécanique
  (Fernand Léger, France, 1924, 11 min.)
• Symphonie diagonale
  (Viking Eggeling, France, 1924, 7 min.)
• Le Vampire
  (Jean Painlevé, France, 1939, 8.5 min.)
• The Hearts of Age
  (Orson Welles, William Vance, U.S., 1934, 8 min.)

Disc 2

• Überfall
  (Ernö Metzner, Germany, 1928, 22 min.)
• La glace à trois faces
  (Jean Epstein, France, 1927, 33 min.)
• Le Tempestaire
  (Jean Epstein, France, 1947, 22.5 min.)
• Romance sentimentale
  (Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori V. Alexandrov, France, 1930, 20 min.)
• Autumn Fire
  (Herman G. Weinberg, U.S., 1931, 15 min.)
• Manhattan
  (Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, U.S., 1921, 10 min.)
• La Coquille et le clergyman
  (Germaine Dulac, France, 1926, 31.5 min.)
• Regen (Rain)
  (Joris Ivens, the Netherlands, 1929, 14 min.)
• H2O
  (Ralph Steiner, U.S., 1929, 12 min.)
• Even -- As You and I
  (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, LeRoy Robbins, U.S., 1937, 12 min.)

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