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Name: Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film
Released: 1920-1970
Genre: Documentary, Short
Producer: Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand, Fernand Léger, Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), Bruce Baillie, Amy Greenfield, Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, and more
Cast: Jules Raucourt, Friederich Haak, Elizabeth Binney Montgomery, Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied, Anaïs Nin, and more
The plot of the movie
Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection, in collaboration with Filmmakers Showcase, are proud to present Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 in a 4-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition. This breathtaking collection includes 37 films, restored to pristine high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.
Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s creative collaboration on Manhatta, successive generations of experimental filmmakers and artists have worked in collaboration or alone to create a cinema capable of expressing dynamic unspoken concepts in totally abstract visual terms.
To watch these films is to see the world anew through cinematic interventions: fast cutting, expressive camerawork, abstract animation, surrealistic collage, distorted and superimposed imagery, and many more extraordinary techniques. Essentially the filmmakers ask us to open our eyes and see, to permit the reception of pure sensations uninhibited by any complex web of predetermined associations dominant in mainstream Hollywood cinema.
Collected from archives around the world, and beautifully restored in high definition, the majority of vintage silent films in Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 feature new musical scores from innovative composers Donald Sosin, George Antheil, Eric Beheim, Rodney Sauer, Gustavo Matamoros, Henry Wolfe and Phil Carluzzo.
The 37 Films in the digital retrospective include:
The 1920s
• Manhatta (1920-21) by Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131468/
2K digital restoration from 35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 16fps, 11:41 minutes; new music by Donald Sosin
• Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014694/
2K digital restoration from 35mm 1.33:1 black & white with color tints silent 20fps, 15:53 minutes; music by George Antheil from original 1924-25 score adapted and arranged by Paul D. Lehrman and remixed by Gustavo Matamoros
• Anémic cinéma (filmed 1924-25, released 1926) by Rrose Sélavy a.k.a. Marcel Duchamp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123380/
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 20fps, 6:40 minutes; new music by Gustavo Matamoros
• The Life and Death of 9413–A Hollywood Extra (1927) by Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131461/
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 20fps, 13:20 minutes; new music by Donald Sosin
• Skyscraper Symphony (1929) by Robert Florey
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351759/
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 24fps, 8:53 minutes; new music by Donald Sosin
The 1930s
• Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192301/
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 20fps, 10:18 minutes; new music by Eric Beheim
• A Bronx Morning (1931) by Jay Leyda
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350659/
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 20fps, 14:05 minutes; new music by Donald Sosin
• Lot in Sodom (1930-32, released 1933) by J.S. Watson, Jr., Melville Webber, Alec Wilder, Remsen Wood, Bernard O’Brien.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122158/
35mm 1:20:1 black & white sound, 25:53 minutes; music by Louis Siegel
• Poem 8 (1932-33) by Emlen Etting
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482122/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white silent 18fps, 19:40 minutes; new music by Rodney Sauer
• An Optical Poem (1937, MGM release 1938)by Oskar Fischinger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029350/
35mm 1.33:1 color sound, 7:02 minutes; music Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2 by Franz Liszt
• Thimble Theater (c. 1938, unfinished until 1968)by Joseph Cornell
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2183752/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white with color tint silent 18fps, 6:07 minutes; completed by Lawrence Jordan; new music: vintage circus organ
The 1940s
• Tarantella (1940) by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth, animation Norman McLaren
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033135/
35mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4:24 minutes; music by Edwin Gerschefski
• The Pursuit of Happiness (1940) by Rudy Burckhardt
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084923/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white intentionally silent 16fps, 8:09 minutes
• 1941 (1941) by Francis Lee
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295481/
35mm from 16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4 minutes; music by Igor Stravinsky
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) by Maya Deren, A. Hackenschmied
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white intentionally silent, 13:46 minutes
• Meditation on Violence (1948)by Maya Deren
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040578/
35mm enlarged from 16mm with 2K digital insert from 16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 12:27 minutes; music a mix of Chinese classical flute and drums recorded in Haiti by Maya Deren
• In the Street (filmed 1945-46, released 1948, 1952) by Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267573/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white silent 18fps, 16:50 minutes; music by Arthur Kleiner
Disc 2
The 1950s
• Four in the Afternoon (1950-51) by James Broughton
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043559/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 14 minutes; music by William O. Smith
• Abstronic (1952) by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044326/
35mm 1.37:1 color sound, 5:45 minutes; music Hoe Down by Aaron Copland, Ranch House Party by Don Gillis
• Eaux d’artifice (1953) by Kenneth Anger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045719/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white tinted color sound, 12:57 minutes; music “Winter” movement of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
• Bells of Atlantis (1952-53) by Ian Hugo, Anaïs Nin, Len Lye
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235221/
16mm 1.37.1 color sound, 9:27 minutes; electronic music Louis & Bebe Barron.
• Evolution (1954) by Jim Davis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5105636/
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 8:01 minutes.
• Gyromorphosis (1954) by Hy Hirsh
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5105650/
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 6:40 minutes; music: Django by John Lewis, played by the Modern Jazz Quartet
• Hurry, Hurry! (1957) by Marie Menken
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2318256/
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4:27 minutes.
• N.Y., N.Y. (filmed 1949-57, released 1958)by Francis Thompson
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365541/
35mm from 16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 15:10 minutes; music by Gene Forrell
The 1960s
• 9 Variations on a Dance Theme (1966/67) by Hilary Harri
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1765660/
16mm 1.37 black & white sound, 12:39 minutes; music by McNeil Robinson.
• Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness) (1966) by Bruce Baillie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060220/
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:59 minutes
• Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter (1968)by Owen Land, formerly George Landow
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342420/
16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 8:26 minutes
• Excerpt from Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969) by Jonas Mekas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196499/
16mm 1.37:1; color sound excerpt end of Reel 5 and beginning of Reel 6, 13:05 minutes; music by Frédéric Chopin, Group Image
• Our Lady of the Sphere (1969) by Lawrence Jordan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305934/
35mm from 16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:14 minutes
1970
• Love It / Leave It (1970) by Tom Palazzolo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151399/
16mm 1.37:1; color sound, 14:07 minutes; music by Ray Whilding White
• DL2 (Disintegration Line #2) (1970) by Lawrence Janiak
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5105688/
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 11:46 minutes; music Bumblebees Sip Honey by Peliatan Gamelan
• Transport (1970) by Amy Greenfield
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5105702/
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 5:43 minutes; music by Indiran
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