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Avant Garde : Experimental Cinema of the 1920S and '30S.

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With musical accompaniment.
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.
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.
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 fire / Herman G. Weinberg (1931, United States, 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.).
Twenty-four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's.
DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

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