- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2.
b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Sound. Silent, in English, French and Swedish with English subtitles and intertitles. Music composed and performed by Sue Harshe, Larry Marotta and Jon C. Mirsalis.
Includes: GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY (Willard Maas, 1943, 7 minutes); THE MECHANICS OF LOVE (Willard Maas & Ben Moore, 1955, 5 minutes); VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (Marie Menken, 1945, 4 minutes); THE POTTED PSALM (Sidney Peterson & James Broughton, 1946, 18 minutes); THE CAGE (Sydney Peterson, 1947, 28 minutes); HOUSE OF CARDS (Joseph Vogel, 1947, 16 minutes); CHRISTMAS, U.S.A. (Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1949, 13 minutes); ADVENTURES OF JIMMY (Broughton, 1950, 10 minutes); INTERIM (Stan Brakhage, 1952, 24 minutes); UNGLASSED WINDOWS CAST A TERRIBLE REFLECTION (Brakhage, 1953, 29 minutes); THE WAY TO SHADOW GARDEN (Brakhage, 1954, 11 minutes); THE EXTRAORDINARY CHILD (Brakhage, 1954, 13 minutes); REBUS-FILM NO. 1 (Paul Leni, 1928, 15 minutes); THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (James Watson & Melville Webber, 1928, 12 minutes); PACIFIC 231 (Jean Mitry, 1949, 10 minutes); ARRIERE SAISON (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1950, 15 minutes); TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D’ETERNITÉ (Jean Isidore Isou, 1951, 111 minutes).
Supplemental features: Film notes by critic/historian Elliott Stein; theatrical trailer of TRAITE DE BAVE ET D’ETERNITE.
Titles
+ Geography Of The Body, The
- Director:
- Maas, Willard
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1943
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Cinematography by Marie Menken. Commentary by George Barker.
Maas, Menken and Barker film details of each other’s bodies with dime-store magnifying glasses taped to a 16mm camera.
+ Mechanics Of Love, The
- Director:
- Maas, Willard; Moore, Ben
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1955
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Music by John Gruen. A lyrical narrative of a young couple in bed.
+ Visual Variations On Noguchi
- Director:
- Menken, Marie
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1945
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent with music by Lucia Dlugoszewski.
An impressionistic documentary of Isamu Noguchi’s studio.
+ Potted Psalm, The
- Director:
- Peterson, Sidney; Broughton, James
- Running Time:
- Short. 18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1946
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with optional musical score by Sue Harshe (2007). A melange of visual jokes.
+ Cage, The
- Director:
- Peterson, Sidney
- Production Co:
- Workshop 20; California School of Fine Arts
- Running Time:
- Short. 28 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1947
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with optional musical score by Larry Marotta (2007). Photography by Hy Hirsh.
The adventures of a detached eyeball and other surreal visual images.
+ House Of Cards
- Director:
- Vogel, Joseph
- Running Time:
- Short. 16 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1947
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Musical accompaniment. Assistant filmmakers John Whitney and James Whitney.
A newspaper headline provokes a young man’s stream-of-consciousness journey into violence.
+ Christmas, U.S.A.
- Alternate Title:
- Christmas, USA
- Director:
- Markopoulos, Gregory J.
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1949
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with optional musical score by Larry Marotta (2007).
A visual composition of carnival imagery.
+ Adventures Of Jimmy
- Director:
- Broughton, James
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1950
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Interim
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1952
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Music by James Tenney. Cinematography by Stan Phillips. Brakhage’s first film (made at age 19).
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Unglassed Windows Cast A Terrible Reflection
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short. 29 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with optional musical accompaniment.
A group of young men and women finds themselves alone in an isolated location when their car breaks down. When the driver goes for help, the others explore the place. Jealousies rise to the surface and a brawl leads to a death.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Way To Shadow Garden, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1954
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with sound design by Brakhage. A young man enters a mysterious room and stumbles into the even more mysterious Shadow Garden.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Extraordinary Child, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1954
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Made with the assistance of Larry Jordan. A baby arrives at his parents’ house fully grown.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Rebus Film #1
- Director:
- Leni, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A series of shots of assorted people and places around the planet.
+ Fall Of The House Of Usher, The (Watson/Webber)
- Director:
- Watson, James; Webber, Melville
- Production Co:
- Film Guild
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A special effects-heavy adaptation of the short story by Edgar Allen Poe.
+ Pacific 231
- Director:
- Mitry, Jean
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1949
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Music by Arthur Honegger. An impressionistic visual interpretation of of a train’s rapid run through the French countryside.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Arrière Saison
- Director:
- Kirsanoff, Dimitri
- Production Co:
- Les Films Kirsanoff
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1950
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Music by Arthur Hoeree. A woodcutter’s wife, unable to stand the solitude and tedium of her life, attempts to leave her husband.
+ Traité De Bave Et D’éternité
- Alternate Title:
- Venom And Eternity
- Director:
- Isou, Jean Isidore
- Running Time:
- Feature. 111 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1951
- Language:
- French language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A young filmmaker wanders through his Paris neighborhood while on the soundtrack we hear him discuss film, politics and his personal life.