Avant-Garde Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s 2dvd

Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s

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Disc 1

* Le Retour à la raison
(Man Ray, France, 1923, 2 min.)
* Emak-Bakia
(Man Ray, France, 1926, 16 min.)
* L'Étoile de mer
(Man Ray, France, 1928, 15.5 min.)
* Les Mystères du château du Dé
(Man Ray, France, 1929, 20 min.)
* The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
(Slavko Vorkapich, Robert Florey, U.S., 1928, 13 min.)
* Ménilmontant
(Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1926, 37 min.)
* Brumes d'automne
(Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1928, 12 min.)
* Lot in Sodom
(James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber, U.S., 1933, 27 min.)
* Rhythmus 21
(Hans Richter, Germany, 1921, 3 min.)
* Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast)
(Hans Richter, Germany, 1928, 9 min.)
* Anémic cinéma
(Marcel Duchamp, France, 1926, 6.5 min.)
* Ballet mécanique
(Fernand Léger, France, 1924, 11 min.)
* Symphonie diagonale
(Viking Eggeling, France, 1924, 7 min.)
* Le Vampire
(Jean Painlevé, France, 1939, 8.5 min.)
* The Hearts of Age
(Orson Welles, William Vance, U.S., 1934, 8 min.)

Disc 2

* Überfall
(Ernö Metzner, Germany, 1928, 22 min.)
* La glace à trois faces
(Jean Epstein, France, 1927, 33 min.)
* Le Tempestaire
(Jean Epstein, France, 1947, 22.5 min.)
* Romance sentimentale
(Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori V. Alexandrov, France, 1930, 20 min.)
* Autumn Fire
(Herman G. Weinberg, U.S., 1931, 15 min.)
* Manhatta
(Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, U.S., 1921, 10 min.)
* La Coquille et le clergyman
(Germaine Dulac, France, 1926, 31.5 min.)
* Regen (Rain)
(Joris Ivens, the Netherlands, 1929, 14 min.)
* H2O
(Ralph Steiner, U.S., 1929, 12 min.)
* Even -- As You and I
(Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, LeRoy Robbins, U.S., 1937, 12 min.)

Extras

* Film notes by film critic/historian Elliott Stein
* Optional English subtitles (on selected films)
* Dual-layer RSDL edition for optimal image quality