Traité de bave et d'éternité (Motion picture) Geography of the body. Mechanics of love. Visual variations on Noguchi. House of cards. Potted psalm. Cage. Christmas, U.S.A. Adventures of Jimmy. Interim. Unglassed windows cast a terrible reflection. Way to shadow garden. Extraordinary child. Rebus-film no. 1. Fall of the house of Usher. Pacific 231. Arrière saison.
Notes:
Collective title & disc titles from disc menus. Film titles, publication dates, durations & credits from program notes. "Films from the Raymond Rohauer collection" -- Disc label. Container insert includes program notes by film critic Elliott Stein.
Contents:
DVD 1 (178 min.): Geography of the body (1943, 7 min.) / produced and directed by Willard Maas ; cinematography, Marie Menken ; commentary by George Barker -- The mechanics of love (1955, 5 min.) / directed by Willard Maas and Ben Moore ; music by John Gruen -- Visual variations on Noguchi (1945, 4 min.) / directed and photographed by Marie Menken ; music by Lucia Dlugoszewski -- House of cards (1947, 16 min.) / written and directed by Joseph Vogel, assisted by John Whitney and James Whitney -- The potted psalm (1946, 18 min.) / directed by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton ; optional musical score by Sue Harshe -- The cage (1947, 28 min.) / directed by Sidney Peterson ; produced by Workshop 20, California School of Fine Arts ; photography by Hy Hirsh ; optional musical score by Larry Marotta -- Christmas, U.S.A. (1949, 13 min.) / directed by Gregory J. Markopoulos ; optional musical score by Larry Marotta -- Adventures of Jimmy (1950, 10 min.) / directed by James Broughton ; photography by Frank Stauffacher ; music by Weldon Kees ; edited by Kermit Sheets -- Interim (1952, 24 min.) / written and directed by Stan Brakhage ; music by James Tenney ; cinematography, Stan Phillips -- Unglassed windows cast a terrible reflection (1953, 29 min.) / written, photographed and directed by Stan Brakhage ; produced by Paul Ihrig ; optional musical score by Sue Harshe -- The way to shadow garden (1954, 11 min.) / directed and photographed by Stan Brakhage -- The extraordinary child (1954, 13 min.) / produced, directed and photographed by Stan Brakhage -- DVD 2 (163 min.): Rebus-film no. 1 (1928, 15 min.) / directed by Paul Leni ; cinematography, Guido Seeber -- The fall of the House of Usher (1928, 12 min.) / directed by James Sibley Watson Jr. and Melville Webber ; scenario by Melville Webber ; based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe -- Pacific 231 (1949, 10 min.) / directed, written and edited by Jean Mitry ; photographed by Andre Tadie, Andre Perier and Jean Jarret ; music by Arthur Honegger -- Arrière saison (1950, 15 min.) / written and directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff ; produced by Les Films Kirsanoff ; director of photography, Andre Costey ; music by Arthur Hoeree -- Traité de bave et d'éternité = Venom and eternity (1951, 111 min.) / written, produced and directed by Jean Isidore Isou ; cinematography by Nat Saufer ; edited by Suzanne Carbon -- [Theatrical trailer for Traité de bave et d'éternité = Venom and eternity] (5 min.).
Summary:
Seventeen examples of avant garde film, including 16 short films and the full-length classic Traité de bave et d'éternité (aka: Venom and eternity).
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