- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- In
- DVD006013
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Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimentl Films 1920-1970
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Multiple
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Flicker Alley, 2015
- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2.
color and b/w. sound. - Notes:
- Supplemental features include: booklet with film synopses and artist bios.
- Alternate Title:
- Mannahatta
- Director:
- Sheeler, Charles; Strand, Paul
- Production Co:
- Film Arts Guild
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- 2k digital restoration with new music by Donald Sosin. A study of New York City inspired by the Walt Whitman poem of the same name.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Léger, Ferdinand; Murphy, Dudley
- Running Time:
- Short. 16 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- 2k digital restoration. Cubist film designed to generate a constantly mounting tension towards speed. Music by Georges Antheil from the original 1924-1925 score, adapted and arranged by Paul D. and Gustavo Matamoros.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Duchamp, Marcel
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA, France
- Year:
- 1926
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Spiral designs with punning French messages alternately protrude and recede. With music by Gustavo Matamoros.
- Alternate Title:
- A Hollywood Extra; Hollywood Rhapsody; The Life and Death of a Hollwood Extra
- Director:
- Florey, Robert; Vorkapich, Slavko
- Production Co:
- Film Art Guild
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A Hollywood actor sees his career slowly unravel. Shot by Gregg Toland and Slavko Vorkapich with music by Donald Sosin.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Florey, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Vivid montage of Manhattan skyscrapers; new music by Donald Sosin. Preserved by Gosfilmofond of Russia.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Steiner, Ralph
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1930
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Study of gears and mechanized motion. New music by Eric Beheim.
- Director:
- Leyda, Jay
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1931
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Observations of morning life in the Bronx. New music by Donald Sosin; preserved by the British Film Institute.
- Director:
- Webber, Melville; Wilder, Alec; Wood, Remsen
- Running Time:
- Short. 26 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1933
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Collaborative film project illustrating Genesis 19, with camera-printer effects by J.S. Watson Jr.
- Director:
- Etting, Emlen
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1932-3
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- With new music by Rodney Sauer and shots of outdoor dancing by Mary Binney Montgomery. Etting catches natural rhythms such as the wind going in waves over a grass field.
- Director:
- Fischinger, Oskar
- Production Co:
- MGM
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Paper cut-out animation set to Liszt’s second Hungarian Rhapsody.
- Director:
- Cornell, Joseph; Jordan, Larry
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Montage of clips and fragments from lost and forgotten films; left unfinished by Cornell and completed by Larry Jordan in 1968.
- Director:
- Bute, Mary Ellen; Nemeth, Ted; McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- Expanding Cinema Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1940
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Early experiment in the “seeing-sound” film genre which sets abstract animation to music, composed here by Edwin Gerschefski.
- Director:
- Burckhardt, Rudy
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1940
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- The ebb and flow of life in Manhattan, captured on the fly and presented through slow and fast motion, superimposition, and split-screens.
- Director:
- Lee, Francis
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Inspired by the attack on Pearl Harbor; images evoking the horror of war, set to music by Igor Stravinsky.
- Director:
- Deren, Maya
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1943
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- As Deren created the original film as silent, this version has been left intentionally without a soundtrack with three additional shots.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Deren, Maya
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1948
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Experimental study of the dance-like movements of a Chinese boxer, set to a mix of Chinese classical flute and Haitian drumming recorded by Deren.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Levitt, Helen; Loeb, Janice; Agee, James
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1948
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Street film, using footage captured simultaneously with multiple cameras. Filmed in 1945-1946, Levitt was known to have often altered the editing iof the film; this version has additional material and some shot sequences in reverse order.
- Director:
- Broughton, James
- Production Co:
- Farallone Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1950-1
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Four short films adapted by James Broughton from his poems “Game Little Gladys,” “The Gardener’s Son,” “Princess Printemps” and “The Aging Balletomane.”
- Director:
- Bute, Mary Ellen; Nemeth, Ted
- Production Co:
- Ted Nemeth Studios
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1952
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Abstract animation to music by Aaron Copland and Don Gillis.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Anger, Kenneth
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Director:
- Hugo, Ian
- Production Co:
- Films by Hugo
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1952
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Acted and recited by Anaïs Nin from her novel House of Incest. With color effects by Len Lye and electronic music by Louis & Bebe Barron.
- Director:
- Davis, Jim
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1954
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Director:
- Hirsh, Hy
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1954
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Abstract film attempting to capture the kinetic qualities of Constant Nieuwenhuys’s sculpture. With music by John Lewis performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet.
- Director:
- Menken, Marie
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1957
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Director:
- Thompson, Francis
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1958
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Kaleidoscopic, distorted images of New York City in the mid 1950s. With production assistance by D.A. Pennebaker and music by Gene Forrell.
- Director:
- Harris, Hilary
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Dance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A single dance movement represented with different combinations of camera work and editing. Dance by Bettie de Jong with music by McNeil Robinson.
- Director:
- Baillie, Bruce
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A walk down a street in Richmond, California.
- Director:
- Land, Owen (formerly George Landow)
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1968
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Director:
- Mekas, Jonas
- Production Co:
- Jonas Mekas
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1969
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Excerpt from Jonas Mekas’s film diary of the years 1965 - 1968.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- Jordan, Larry
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1969
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Line engravings and cut-out animation following a boy, a lady, and a deep-sea diver on a journey modeled on the rake’s progress.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Alternate Title:
- Love It or Leave It
- Director:
- Palazzolo, Tom
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A raucous treatment of patriotic color, football, nudity and parades set to a refrain of 'Love It' and coalescing into Tom Palazzolo's nightmare rendition of America the Awful.
- Director:
- Janiak, Lawrence
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Abstract film influenced by the American Bauhaus movement; made by shocking unprocessed strips of film into cold water, fixer, hot water, and developer, and then printing them with various colored gels and arranging them into ‘interesting sequences.’
- Director:
- Greenfield, Amy
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Experimental film influenced by postmodern dance, the poetry of Anne Sexton, and the moon landing.
- Director:
- Posner, Bruce
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1977-78
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Director:
- Lee, Francis
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1983
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Animation using ink and Sumi-e watercolor paintings.
- Director:
- Solomon, Phil; Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short. 16 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2002
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Short loops of Brakhage’s hand-painted films, re-photographed and edited by Solomon.
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