Chien andalou (Motion picture) Regen (Motion picture) Polizeibericht Überfall (Motion picture) Hearts of age (Motion picture) Ballet méchanique (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from disc surface. Silent films with music scores. Un chien andalou has French titles with English subtitles. Un chien andalou: Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batchef. Polizeibericht Überfall: Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Alfred Loretto, Han Ruys, Sybille Schmitz, Rudolf Hilberg, Heinrich Falconi. The hearts of age: Orson Welles, Virginia Nicholson. Originally produced as motion pictures from 1928 to 1934. "A Video Yesteryear recording."
Contents:
Ballet mécanique / a film by Fernand Léger. Regen / a film by Joris Ivens and M.H.K. Franken -- Polizeibericht Überfall / director, Ernö Metzner ; screenplay, Ernö Metzner and Grace Chiang -- Hearts of age / a film by Orson Welles -- Ballet mécanique / a film by Fernand Léger.
Summary:
A collection of avant garde and experimental short films made between 1928 and 1934. Un Chien Andalou consists of seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything; Regen, English title Rain, explores the poetry of everyday existence as represented by an Amsterdam rainfall; Polizeibericht Überfall (The Accident) is a morality play about a small time con artist on the German streets; Hearts of Age, Welles' first film, is a takeoff on surrealism; Ballet mécanique is fascinating for its use of montage and eye-line match and its experiment with different rhythms and images.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)667182143
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.