The amateur as auteur : discovering paradise in pictures / Anthology Film Archives in association with British Film Institute, Cineric, Inc., Deutsches Filmmuseum, Film Preservation Associates, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art present ; curator, Bruce Posner ; DVD producer, David Shepard.
Publisher:
Image Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (175 min.) : silent, sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
DVD-ROM accessible features: filmmaker biographies and photo gallery, acknowledgements, sponsors, film note authors, credits, musicians.
Contents:
midnight party / Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Jordan, c. 1938-68 (4 min.) -- Windy Ledge Farm / Elizabeth Woodman Wright, 1929-34 (18 min.) -- A day in Santa Fe / Lynn Riggs, James Hughes, 1931 (29 min.) -- Stewart family home movies, reels 54, 66, 73, 74 / Archie Stewart, 1935-39 (33 min.) -- Joseph Cornell's children trilogy: Children's party / Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Jordan, c. 1938-68 (10 min.) -- Cotillion / Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Jordan, c. 1938-68 (9 min.) -- The midnight party / Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Jordan, c. 1938-68 (4 min.) -- 1126 Dewey Ave., Apt. 207 / attributed to John C. Hecker, 1939 (3 min.). Tree trunk to head : sculptor Chaim Gross / Lewis Jacobs, 1937-38 (35 min.) -- Bicycle polo at San Mateo / Frank Stauffacher, 1940-42 (3 min.) -- 1126 Dewey Ave., Apt. 207 / attributed to John C. Hecker, 1939 (3 min.).
Summary:
"These home-made films incorporate avant-garde strategies and techniques to achieve a true sense of cinematic intimacy. Glimpses of life caught unawares are found in the home movies of Elizabeth Woodman Wright, Archie Stewart, Frank Stauffacher, and John C. Hecker. Poetic lyricism finds a voice in city symphonies: Lynn Riggs and James Hughes' A Day in Santa Fe (1931) and Rudy Burckhardt's Haiti (1938). Professionally minded films, like Theodore Case's sound tests (c. 1925) and Lewis Jacobs' Tree Trunk to Head (1938), operate from a similar home-spun perspective of sincerity. Joseph Cornell offers an enigmatic but lovely homage to childhood with Children's Trilogy (c. 1938)"--Container.
Series:
Unseen cinema ; 6
OCLC:
(OCoLC)148115895
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.