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Title:

Silent avant-garde : 21 experiments with silent film & new music.

Edition:

Special digital restoration edition.

Publisher:

Kino Lorber Inc.

Copyright Date:

©2023

Description:

1 videodisc (188 min.) : silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

1900-1999
Experimental films--20th century--History.
Experimental films.
documentary film.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Fiction films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Silent films.
Experimental films.
Documentary films.
Silent films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
Fiction films.

Other Authors:

Kino Classics (Firm), publisher.
Kino Lorber, Inc., film distributor.
Posner, Bruce Charles, 1953- film director. film director.
Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951, film director.
Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, film director.
Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984, film director.
Tissė, Ėduard, 1897-1961, film director.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968, film director.
Brick, Al, film director.
Vorkapich, Slavko, film director.
Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988, film director.
Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986, film director.
Florey, Robert, 1900-1979, film director.
Bándy, Miklós, film director.
Simon, Stella F., 1878-1973, film director.
Man Ray, 1890-1976, film director.
Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965, film director.
Strand, Paul, 1890-1976, film director.
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955, film director.
Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968, film director.
Vance, William, film director.
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, film director.
Bute, Mary Ellen, film director.
Nemeth, Ted, 1911-1986, film director.
Thompson, Francis, 1908-2003, film director.
Cornell, Joseph, film director.
Newcombe, Warren, 1894-1960, film director.
Sosin, Donald, composer (expression)
Matamoros, Gustavo, 1957- composer (expression)
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951, composer (expression)
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, composer.
Druckman, Jacob, 1928-1996, composer (expression)
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880, composer.
Dominguez, Carlos, 1989- composer (expression)
Lough, Alex, composer (expression)
Blitzstein, Marc, composer (expression)
Antheil, George, 1900-1959, composer (expression)
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, composer.
Forrell, Gene, composer (expression)
Audinot, Rafael, composer (expression)
Debru, Albert, composer (expression)
Wolff, Christian, 1934- composer (expression)

Notes:

"Curated, selected and produced with notes by Bruce Posner from "Unseen cinema: early American avant-garde film 1893-1941" touring film retrospective"--Container. Content details from online collection notes, viewed September 12, 2023. Full screen (1.33:1)

Contents:

The enchanted city, a love phantasy / director, Warren A. Newcombe ; music, Donald Sosin (1922, 12 min.). Eisenstein Mexican footage: Fiesta of the Virgin of Guadalupe [alternate title: Que viva Mexico!] / directors, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov, Eduard Tisse ; [no music] (1930, 5 min.) -- Anémic cinema [alternate title: Spirals] / director, Rrose Sélavy [pseudonym for Marcel Duchamp] ; music, Gustavo Matamoros (1925-1926, 7 min.) -- Looney lens: Pas de deux / director, Al Brick ; music, Donald Sosin (1924, 4 min.) -- Vorkapich montage sequences / director, Slavko Vorkapich ; music, John Alden Carpenter, Ludwig van Beethoven: Skyline dance (for Dorothy Azner's 'Manhattan cocktail') (1928, 29 sec.) ; Money machine (for Rowland V. Lee's 'The wolf of Wall Street') (1929, 7 sec.) ; Prohibition (for Ludwig Berger's 'Sins of the fathers') (1929, 2 min.) ; The furies (for Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 'Crime without passion') (1934, 3 min.) -- A Bronx morning / director, Jay Leyda ; music, Donald Sosin (1931, 14 min.) -- Look park / director, Ralph Steiner ; music, Jacob Druckman, Jacques Offenbach (1973-1974, 10 min., color) -- The life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra / directors, Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich ; music, Carlos Dominguez, Alex Lough (1927, 14 min.) -- Hands: The life and loves of the gentler sex = Hände: Das Leben und die Liebe eines zärthlichen Gelchlechtes / directors, Miklós Bándy, Stella Simon ; music, Marc Blitzstein (1926-1929, 13 min.) -- Return to reason = Le retour à la raison / director, Man Ray ; music, George Antheil (1923, 2 min.) -- Manhatta [alternate titles: New York the magnificent, Fumée d'New York] / directors, Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand ; music, Donald Sosin (1920-1921, 12 min.) -- Ballet mechanique/Le Ballet mécanique [alternate title: Images mobiles] / directors, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy ; music, George Antheil (1923-24, 1931, 13 min.) -- The hearts of age / directors, William Vance, Orson Welles ; music, Donald Sosin (1934, 8 min.) -- Escape, Synchromy no. 4 / directors, Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Nemeth ; music, Johann Sebastian Bach (1938, 4 min.) -- N.Y., N.Y., a day in New York / director, Francis Thompson ; music, Gene Forrell (1947-1958, 15 min.) -- The eclipse [alternate titles: Rose Hobart, Tristes tropiques] / directors, Joseph Cornell, [George Melford, director of 1931 film 'East of Borneo'] ; music, Rafael Audinot, Alberto de Bru, "Rumba rhapsody" performed by Cuarteto Caney (1936-1949, 21 min.) -- Tenga fe / directors, Bruce Posner, [Charles Bryant 1922], [Gaston Velle 1906] ; music, Christian Wolff (1975, 1984, 2010, 2021, 7 min.) -- The enchanted city, a love phantasy / director, Warren A. Newcombe ; music, Donald Sosin (1922, 12 min.).

Summary:

An essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements. Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films. Each film features accompaniment of original silent film music specially prepared, composed, improvised and/or performed by a master of experimental new music.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1369930670

UPC:

738329261573

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)