Light rhythms : music and abstraction / 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 (168 min.) : silent, sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
DVD-ROM accessible features: filmmaker biographies and photo gallery, acknowledgements, sponsors, film note authors, credits, musicians.
Contents:
1929-30 (13 min.) -- Surf and seaweed / Return to reason / Ralph Steiner, 1923 (3 min.) -- Ballet méchanique / Fernand Leger, Dudley Murphy, 1923-24 (16 min.) -- Anémic cinéma / Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), 1924-26 (7 min.) -- Looney lens series : Anamorphic people / Al Brick for Fox News, 1927 (2 min.) -- Out of the melting pot / W. Ganz Studio, 1928 (3 min.) -- H2O / Ralph Steiner, 1919 (13 min.) -- Surf and seaweed / Ralph Steiner, 1929-30 (13 min.) -- 1934 (5 min.) -- Rhythm in light / Melville Webber, Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Nemeth, 1934 (3 min.) -- Legacy of a Hollywood extra, 1928-29 (3 min.) -- The firefly : battle of Vitoria / Vorkapich and MGM versions, 1937 (3 min., 2 segments) -- Maytime : opera singers romance/career / Slavko Vorkapich, 1937 (4 min.) -- So this is Paris / Ernst Lubitsch, 1926 (4 min. excerpt) -- Light rhythms / Francis Bruguière, Oswell Blakeston, 1929-30 (5 min.) -- Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve = Night on Bald Mountain / Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker, 1933 (8 min.) -- Rhythm in light / Melville Webber, Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Nemeth, 1934 (5 min.) -- Contrathemis / Dwinell Grant, 1941 (4 min.) -- Parabola / Rutherford Boyd, Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Nemeth, 1936-38 (9 min.) -- Footlight parade : by a waterfall / Busby Berkeley for Warner Brothers, featuring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, 1933 (10-min. exerpt) -- Glens Falls sequence / Couglass Crockwell, 1937-46 (7 min.) -- Simple destiny abstractions / Douglass Crockwell, 1937-49 (90-sec. excerpt) -- Abstract movies / George L.K. Morris, 1939-47 (10 min.) -- Scherzo / Norman McLaren, 1939 (1 min.) -- Composition #1: Themis / Dwinell Grant, 1940 (3 min. 30 sec.) -- Composition #2: Contrathemis / Dwinell Grant, 1941 (4 min.) -- Moods of the sea / Slavko Vorkapich, John Hoffman, 1942 (10 min.) Moods of the sea / Slavko Vorkapich, John Hoffman, 1942 (10 min.)
Summary:
"The rhythmic elements of cinema are explored by artists and filmmakers fascinated by the abstract qualities of light. The American authors of avant-garde classics Le Retour á la raison (1923), Ballet mécanique (1923-24), Anémic cinéma (1926), and Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (1934), are finally acknowledged for their seminal artistic achievements made in Europe. Pioneer abstract films by Ralph Steiner, Mary Ellen Bute, Douglass Crockwell, Dwinnell Grant, and George Morris are compared and contrasted with Hollywood montages created by Ernst Lubitsch, Slavko Vorkapich, and Busby Berkeley. For the first time on video, composer George Antheil's original 1924 score accompanies Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy's film Ballet mécanique, a truly avant-garde cacophony of image and sound"--Container.
Series:
Unseen cinema ; 3
OCLC:
(OCoLC)148115826
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.