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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
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
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