- Description:
- BluRay - Multi-Zone. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps
Titles
+ Twenty-Four Dollar Island
- Director:
- Flaherty, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A visual celebration of Manhattan and its waterways on the 300th anniversary of purchase from the local Native Americans.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Eisenstein Mexican Footage
- Director:
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Mexico
- Year:
- 1930
- Genre:
- Documentary, Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Anémica Cinéma
- Alternate Title:
- Anemic Cinema
- Director:
- Duchamp, Marcel
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1926
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A spiral design spins. It’s replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
+ Pas de deux
- Alternate Title:
- Looney Lens: Pas de deux
- Director:
- Brick, Al
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928-1934
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Two men interacting before a distorted spherical mirror.
+ Vorkapich Montage Sequences
- Director:
- Vorkapich, Slavko
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1931
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Skyline Dance - Manhattan Cocktail
The Money Machine - The Wolf of Wall Street
Prohibition - Sins of the Fathers
The Furies - Crime Without Passion
+ Bronx Morning, A
- Director:
- Leyda, Jay
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1973
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood activities are shown, along with scenes from many local businesses.
+ Look Park
- Director:
- Steiner, Ralph
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location of the water, then focuses in very tight on the abstract reflections and shadows.
+ Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra, The
- Director:
- Florey, Robert; Vorkapich, Slavko
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Hände
- Alternate Title:
- Hands: The Life and Loves of the Gentler Sex
- Director:
- Bándy, Miklós; Simon, Stella
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 1927
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- The use of human hands as characters in a dance inspired narrative are used to explore female experience and representation. By drawing upon experimental traditions found in international art, film, and photography movements of the 1920s, Simon transforms a simple melodramatic love story into an avant-garde feminist short film.
+ Return to Reason
- Alternate Title:
- Retour à la raison
- Director:
- Ray, Man
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1923
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
+ Manhatta
- Director:
- Sheeler, Charles; Strand, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Ballet Mécanique
- Director:
- Léger, Fernand; Murphy, Dudley
- Production Co:
- Synchro-Ciné
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1924
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Ballet Mécanique (1923-4) is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by artist Fernand Léger and filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil (However, the film premiered with no soundtrack, on September 24th, 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik in Vienna). It is considered one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Hearts of Age, The
- Director:
- Vance, William; Welles, OrsoFeaturen
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1934
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Escape
- Alternate Title:
- Synchromy No. 4
- Director:
- Bute, Mary Ellen; Nemeth, Theodore
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1938
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- To the toccata portion of Bach’s “Toccata and fugue in D minor,” we watch a play of sorts.
+ N.Y., N.Y.
- Director:
- Thompson, Francis
- Production Co:
- Les Productions Artistes Associés
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1949-1958
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A day in the life of the city and citizens of New York as seen through the fantastic eye, and the incredibly distorted optic lenses, of filmmaker Francis Thompson.
+ Eclipse, The
- Alternate Title:
- Rose Hobart
- Director:
- Cornell, Joseph
- Running Time:
- Short. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936-1949
- Genre:
- Exploitation
- Notes:
- Cornell employs clips from 1931’s jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell’s collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Tenga Fe
- Director:
- Posner, Bruce
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1906, 1922, 2022
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A 2021 experimental film utilising, among other things, a clip from Gaston Velle’s Voyage autour d’une étoile (1906).
+ Enchanted City, The
- Director:
- Newcombe, Warren A.
- Production Co:
- Educational Film Exchanges
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1922
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- An artistic free-form exercise in storytelling and a highly stylized film-poem. By the seasisde, a young man recalls to his true love a harrowing dream he had.