- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, NTSC. viewing copy. 1 videocassette of 1.
color & b/w.
sound.
- Notes:
- Contains: H20 (Ralph Steiner, 1929, 10 min.); SURF AND SEAWEED (Steiner, 1930, 9 min.); A MAN AND HIS DOG (OUT FOR AIR) (Robert Breer, 1957, 2 min.); BLAZES (Breer, 1961, 3 min.); BREATHING (Breer, 1963, 5 min.); FIST FIGHT (Breer, 1964, 9 min.); 69 (Breer, 1968, 5 min.); MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, 1963, 4 min.); COMPOSITION IN BLUE (original title Komposition in Blau, Oskar Fischinger, Germany, 1935, 4 min.); ALLEGRETTO (Fischinger, USA, 1936, 3 min.); A COLOUR BOX (Len Lye, Great Britain, 1935, 3 min.); RAINBOW DANCE (Lye, Great Britain, 1936, 5 min.); LAMBETH WALK (Lye, Great Britain, 1941, 5 min.); EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (Harry Smith, 1939 - , 23 min.); THE DEAD (Brakhage, USA/France, 1960, 10 min.); EAUX D'ARTIFICE (Kenneth Anger, 1953, 13 min.), POWERS OF TEN (Charles and Ray Eames, USA, 1968, 9 min.).
Titles
+ Dead, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1960
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Gravestones, portions of church exterior, monuments and crypts with negative and positive profiles of Kenneth Anger.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Powers Of Ten
- Alternate Title:
- Powers Of Ten: A Film Dealing With The Relative Size Of Things In The Universe And The Effect Of Adding Another Zero
- Director:
- Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1968
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Educational, Female Directors
+ Allegretto
- Director:
- Fischinger, Oskar
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Blazes
- Director:
- Breer, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1961
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Composition In Blue
- Director:
- Fischinger, Oskar
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 1935
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Early Abstractions
- Director:
- Smith, Harry
- Running Time:
- Short. 23 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1939
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Fist Fight
- Director:
- Breer, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1964
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ H2O
- Director:
- Steiner, Ralph
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
+ Lambeth Walk
- Alternate Title:
- Schichlegruber Doing The Lambeth Walk; Lambeth Walk Nazi Style
- Director:
- Lye, Len
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1941
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Mothlight
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Rainbow Dance
- Director:
- Lye, Len
- Production Co:
- GPO Film Unit
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1936
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Post Office savings propaganda colour fantasy of a man standing in a rainbow. Combines a live action dance with animation colour fantasies accompanied by a jazz score.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ 69
- Director:
- Breer, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1968
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Man And His Dog Out For Air, A
- Director:
- Breer, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1957
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Breathing
- Director:
- Breer, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Colour Box, A
- Director:
- Lye, Len
- Production Co:
- GPO Film Unit
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1935
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- An abstract advertising film made for the G.P.O. (General Post Office) which advertises cheaper rates for the parcel post (203ft).
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Eaux D’Artifice
- Director:
- Anger, Kenneth
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Surf And Seaweed
- Director:
- Steiner, Ralph
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1930
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema