Alice (Kiki) Prin, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos, Man Ray, J.-A. Boiffard, Nadia Sibirskaia, Friederich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorothea Haus, Lewis Whitbeck, Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Alfred Loretto, Han Ruys, Sybille Schmitz, Rudolf Hilberg, Heinrich Falconi, Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day, Raymond Guerin, Paul Garat, Rene Ferte, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Mara Griy, Erna Bergman, Willy Hildebrand. Special features: Film notes by Elliott Stein [text feature].
Contents:
(1934, U.S.) (8 min.). The hearts of age / The return to reason / Orson Welles and William Vance (1923, France) (3 min.) -- Emak-Bakia = Leave me alone Man Ray (1926, France) (16 min.) -- L'Étoile de mer = The starfish / Man Ray (1928, France) (15 min.) -- Les mystères du château du Dé = The mysteries of the chateau of dice / Man Ray (1929, France) (20 min.) -- The Life and death of 9413 : a Hollywood extra / Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich (1928, U.S.) (13 min.) -- Ménilmontant / Dimitri Kirsanoff (1926, France) (37 min.) -- Brumes d'automne = Autumn mists / Dimitri Kirsanoff (1928, France) (12 min.) -- Lot in Sodom / James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber (1933, U.S.) (27 min.) -- Rhythmus 21 = Film is rhythm / 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 = Diagonal symphony / Viking Eggeling (1924, France) (7 min.) -- Le vampire / Jean Painlevé (1939-45, France) (9 min.) -- The hearts of age / Orson Welles and William Vance (1934, U.S.) (8 min.). (1937, U.S.) (12 min.). Even - as you and I / Police Report! : Assault / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and Le Roy Robbins (1928, Germany) (22 min.) -- La glace à trois faces = The three-sided mirror / Jean Epstein ; d'apres la nouvelle de Paul Morand (1927, France) (33 min.) -- Le tempestaire = The tempest / Jean Epstein (1947, France) (41 min.) -- Romance sentimentale = Sentimental romance / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov (1930, France) (21 min.) -- Autumn fire / Herman G. Weinberg (1931, U.S.) (15 min.) -- Manhatta / Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler (1921, U.S.) (10 min.) -- La coquille et le clergyman = The seashell and the clergyman / Germaine Dulac (1928, France) (31 min.) -- Regen = Rain / Joris Ivens (1929, Netherlands) (14 min.) -- H²O/ Ralph Steiner (1929, U.S.) (12 min.) -- Even - as you and I / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and Le Roy Robbins (1937, U.S.) (12 min.).
Summary:
Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime programmer at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Rohauer helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema, and these films from his personal archive are some of the most influential and eclectic short films made during the 20th Century.
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